Over the years we’ve realized that there are more capable email platforms out there. Some, like my colleague Mark Gibbs, have long complained about the shortcomings of Verizon email, and now Verizon itself acknowledges its heart isn't into it: 'We have decided to close down our email business. I've chosen to do nothing and I imagine many others will do the same. And no, you can't head over to - it died off about 15 years ago. You'd need to manually move your messages, contacts and calendar/s. Use any other email provider, such as or Gmail. Just for kicks, I opened an AOL Mail account, but not with my old Verizon address. You'd get to retail your email, contacts and calendar/s automatically. You can actually keep your address, though it would be handled from now on via AOL Mail (just one of many things Verizon got via its $4.4B AOL buyout). If you're an active user, or not, here are your options: VERIZON.NET MAIL OPTION 1 I personally spotted nearly a dozen messages from contacts using addresses in my inbox over the past couple of weeks. Verizon controls 4.5 email accounts, and figures about 2.3 million of them are active - as in, they have been used in the past 30 days.

However, plenty of others do rely on their email accounts and have had them for ages. Verizon is giving me a cut-off date of April 19.

I actually never use my Verizon email, so hadn't been checking messages and really don't care if mine dies off.

While attempting to reconfigure my wireless plan today to avoid a possible data overage charge, I noticed on my main Verizon Wireless account page that I had received a series of increasingly urgent messages from the service provider in recent weeks -'Act now or lose email access' was the latest.

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