Hi All An interesting piece of info was brought to my attention, and to be honest I hadn’t seen it previously. - (definitely not an email from iinet advising me of the change. Possibly an email will come later on perhaps?)
Apparently iinet/TPG and all it’s subsidiaries (Westnet, Internode etc) have decided they are no longer going to host their customer’s emails. (And new customers signing up are not given an @ISP email address). They are moving it over to another business where they (the ISP) are apparently paying for it for a year (up to Sept 2024 from what I can gather), then after that if you then want to still keep using your @isp email address, then you will have to pay for it. I haven’t seen any plans as yet, but a few things I read said it could be “from $3.99 per email address per month). - though doesn’t show what the quota would be. Some other people had said to budget about $60 a year to keep the email address. The “notice” is on all the ISP websites, so for example on the main iinet home page (and same for Westnet, TPG, Internode etc), all have a link to information about it. https://help.iinet.net.au/iinet-email-messaging-company Even the “new” company taking over (The Messaging Company), website's is fairly sparse on information. Definitely going to be a bit of wake up call for a lot of people. Who may have an @isp address for 20+ years, then find if they want to keep it they now have to pay. And I’m sure the internet plans won’t see a price decrease for the money saved on not supplying/hosting email addresses. Hey, I could be wrong,…but, well….time will tell. (I have an @iinet address that I’ve had for about 22+ years that I’ve been with them - not that I use it very much….but it’s there). I know I have quite a lot of clients that use their @isp address, so definitely going to be a change for a lot of people. Another good reason to have a domain name I guess, or a “free” email address like @iCloud.com, @gmail.com etc- then you can change ISPs without having to tell everyone your email address has changed. (As an aside, the price is about “normal” - as I looked at some of the “email only” hosting plans I have for clients and a 10GB plan is $60 a year per mailbox) Definitely will be something to watch and see what happens with it. Thought I’d post to the list as possibly others may not have seen or been aware of this. :) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry p : 0414 795 960 e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
