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Telus Mail to Gmail
We've always used IMAP and POP and have never used webmail, does this changeover affect us?
Now it's getting farcical. I'm trying to set a date for the big transition and it won't accept any combo of password or alias to log into the 'webmail' thing on the linked page. Am I supposed to set up separate accounts first? We've always used real email and don't have a clue how to do that.
NFtoBC
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Community Power UserHave you logged into webmail.telus.net to confirm your access password?
That should be the one to use in the transition.
Have never received an 'access password' nor have I ever used the webmail. Just a link to set a date for the transition, which goes to the webmail page and that won't accept *any* of the account credentials to log into it.
The solution to this problem is: start your own 'gmail' account and send out notifications to your contacts re: change of address. Bills, banking and other sensitive stuff should be through secure servers like protonmail, etc. I don't know why Telus decided on this hamfisted way of dumping their email service, rather than just saying it: email is no longer part of the 'package'. Oh well, going to be a busy week.
I agree it is an annoying decision by Telus. They are essentially just cancelling the e-mail part of their service, and telling us to use GMail. If I wanted to use GMail I would have gone that way a long time ago. However, the real problem as you obviously have figured out is that your Telus e-mail address is used everywhere by all your contacts, and frequently as your ID in many sites. The conversion offered by Telus lets you keep your Telus e-mail, but after that it gets difficult. I use Thunderbird/Lightning and it did not like the G-Suite google account that Telus gave me. I did figure it out and have come up with a acceptable solution while maintaining my Telus e-mail. The nice part of Thunderbird is that it lets you retain the POP3 feature of keeping your e-mail on your computer as well as keeping it synced in both directions with a Google Account. Yes, you lose the security of only having e-mail on your computer, but you gain the convenience of having your mail and calendar available on your phone - if you consider that an advantage....
