E-mail account with VMedia

[newtoforum]

I have just switched over from Rogers to VMedia. My old e-mail address was with Rogers (...@rogers.com). How do I setup the e-mail account with vmedia( ...@vmedia.com)?
Thanks.

[Hacksaw2085]

I don't think VMedia offers email addresses. I'd sign up for a gmail account then you won't have to worry if you switch internet providers.

[leshka]

we do not offer e-mails. Actually this is a first request. We prefer to recommend gmail or hotmail because this way you are ISP independent and for example gmail comes with many other advantages (google docs , etc)

[wearysky]

Agreed - the days of having a pop email account with your ISP seem kind of silly now. Who wants to have to change their email address every time they change ISPs?

[sradonic]

Agreed - the days of having a pop email account with your ISP seem kind of silly now. Who wants to have to change their email address every time they change ISPs?

agreed.. get a free iCloud.com account from apple - much better than Hotmail or yahoo etc.. linking yourself to an ISP is just bad news and planning.

[synack]

Well now I just feel left out... :P
I also agree. Being techy, I have my own email domains and servers, but I also have a gmail. ISPs originally only had e-mail because no-one else did. but since hotmail, gmail, apple, and yahoo, there's no point for an ISP to maintain that anymore.

[wearysky]

I don't really have a problem with automated systems scanning my emails to give me better ads. If the price I have to pay for FREE email is that I have to see ads, I'd actually *prefer* that the ads are at least somewhat relevant to me. Though, of course, I have adblockplus on my browser anyway, so I'm not seeing ads in the first place

I'd say there's actually a much more likely chance that there's an actual PERSON (ie a rogue IT person) reading your emails at your local ISP, than there is of somebody at GMail reading your emails personally.

[Sarum]

stay away from ISP emails!!!!

i was with rogers for 20 years... originally my email with them was xxxx@home.com, i had my business with the same email extention... then around 1999.. rogers informed me they were leaving the @home network and that i would lose my email.. pain in the butt for me personally.. but utter chaos for my business... after paying $20 a month for 18 months for my business @home.com email.. i finally gave it up to go with @rogers.. worked for 5 years then we got a business domain and website with email.. it was a bit getting rogers to forward all mail to it.. but when i finally left rogers for another company.. about a month later.. i ended up paying them monthly for the biz@rogers.com forwarded to my domain for a year.. while paying another service provider..

if i had gone with yahoo, hotmail, email at the time.. woulda been fine.. no headaches or extra costs at all..

the isp uses the @theirname email extensions to coheres u into staying with them,, and making it very difficult to leave

[sradonic]

Well now I just feel left out... :P
I also agree. Being techy, I have my own email domains and servers, but I also have a gmail. ISPs originally only had e-mail because no-one else did. but since hotmail, gmail, apple, and yahoo, there's no point for an ISP to maintain that anymore.

Agreed - we have our own emails servers which we host domains for clients too.. I have always suggested to everyone, for $9/month get yourself your own domain/hosted exchange email address.. "xxx@yourname.com"