pobox will be migrated to fastmail - Page 2

jeffpan · 17 Oct 2024, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by mechanic

This is all a bit of a shock - what's the story behind this move? Merging the two email services seems to be adding a lot of complexity with no obvious benefits for customers. Does this mean increased costs/subscriptions?

for now a basic pobox user costs $24/y with a mailbox added.

Berenburger · 17 Oct 2024, 09:04 AM

Unique features, such as spam reports, trusted senders and mail stats are gone.

jeffpan · 19 Oct 2024, 09:36 AM

update: I asked FM's support, once the migration is finished, user can choose to either forward or keep-inbox their emails.

jeffpan · 13 Nov 2024, 05:26 AM

Update: migration has been done. now I have fastmail interface instead of pobox.
All messages can be delivered into fastmail inbox, rather than a forwarding.

POBOX is dead.

According to the knowledge I learned from my PhD in statistics at Clemson University, you should not use a domain name with "box" in its name for your email address, such as pobox.com, openmbox.net, and inbox.com, which are all dead.

Berenburger · 13 Nov 2024, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffpan

According to the knowledge I learned from my PhD in statistics at Clemson University, you should not use a domain name with "box" in its name for your email address, such as pobox.com, openmbox.net, and inbox.com, which are all dead.

They brought inbox.com back to life and pobox.com has been reincarnated.

But it remains sad.

trikotret · 13 Nov 2024, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffpan

Update: migration has been done. now I have fastmail interface instead of pobox.
All messages can be delivered into fastmail inbox, rather than a forwarding.

POBOX is dead.

According to the knowledge I learned from my PhD in statistics at Clemson University, you should not use a domain name with "box" in its name for your email address, such as pobox.com, openmbox.net, and inbox.com, which are all dead.

So messages get delivered to inbox and then you have filters to forward the email? Do you have an option to disable an alias?

jeffpan · 13 Nov 2024, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by trikotret

So messages get delivered to inbox and then you have filters to forward the email? Do you have an option to disable an alias?

Both answers: yes

mechanic · 8 Dec 2024, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffpan

See this help doc for migration,
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/a...or-Pobox-users

They said it will happen next month.

Well here we are into December and I see no migration details on my account, posteo seems to be working normally for me. In the help pages the idea seems to be that migration has now completed. Not for me. What's happening?

jeffpan · 8 Dec 2024, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mechanic

Well here we are into December and I see no migration details on my account, posteo seems to be working normally for me. In the help pages the idea seems to be that migration has now completed. Not for me. What's happening?

Go pobox.com you will see details

Avion · 8 Dec 2024, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mechanic

Well here we are into December and I see no migration details on my account, posteo seems to be working normally for me. In the help pages the idea seems to be that migration has now completed. Not for me. What's happening?

Posteo may have flagged it as spam and silently dropped it? I suggest that you contact 'support-at-fastmail.com' and report it.

mechanic · 8 Dec 2024, 09:45 PM

posteo seems to be behaving itself, the confusion remains with pobox. mail to pobox is set to forward to posteo which should be ok if fastmail picks up mail addressed to pobox and then follows the forwarding rules. The confusion is with the fastmail username apparently the current pobox mail address, Having a username as a complete email address may well confuse any new applications requesting login details. I don't see any fastmail address credentials on offer - is this usual? I thought we were going to be set up with a proper fastmail account with fastmail username, no?

In spite of my confusion no mail seems to have been lost so applause to the migration team for that!

17 Oct 2024, 09:04 AM	#17
Berenburger The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 2,961	Unique features, such as spam reports, trusted senders and mail stats are gone.

19 Oct 2024, 09:36 AM	#18
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,314 Representative of: tls-mail.com	update: I asked FM's support, once the migration is finished, user can choose to either forward or keep-inbox their emails.

13 Nov 2024, 05:26 AM	#19
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,314 Representative of: tls-mail.com	Update: migration has been done. now I have fastmail interface instead of pobox. All messages can be delivered into fastmail inbox, rather than a forwarding. POBOX is dead. According to the knowledge I learned from my PhD in statistics at Clemson University, you should not use a domain name with "box" in its name for your email address, such as pobox.com, openmbox.net, and inbox.com, which are all dead.

8 Dec 2024, 09:45 PM	#26
mechanic Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 49	posteo seems to be behaving itself, the confusion remains with pobox. mail to pobox is set to forward to posteo which should be ok if fastmail picks up mail addressed to pobox and then follows the forwarding rules. The confusion is with the fastmail username apparently the current pobox mail address, Having a username as a complete email address may well confuse any new applications requesting login details. I don't see any fastmail address credentials on offer - is this usual? I thought we were going to be set up with a proper fastmail account with fastmail username, no? In spite of my confusion no mail seems to have been lost so applause to the migration team for that!