Lycos Webmail To Shut Down

[ryanlord]

According to reports from a number of users and websites, Lycos will be ceasing their webmail service permanently in mid February.  On February 15th, all hosted accounts and content on the Lycos webmail system within will be deleted.Soon both dedi

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[Kathy OReilly]

To clarify, the closing of these two products pertains to Lycos Europe only and does not impact users of Lycos Mail and Tripod in the US. For further clarification on the erroneous TechCrunch posting, please go to: http://www.buzz.lycos.com/index.blog?entry_id=1874608

-- Kathy O'Reilly, Director of Public Relations, Lycos, Inc.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for posting. I was wondering why I didn't get any notice in my Lycos email account. Glad I'll be able to keep it.

 

[Guest]

If people were lazy, they could in effect just set up a pop3 in thunderbird or outlook and download their entire web mail to the hard drive...

 

[nekatreven]

[citation][nom]Marcus Murphy[/nom]If people were lazy, they could in effect just set up a pop3 in thunderbird or outlook and download their entire web mail to the hard drive...[/citation]

Many webmail services do not offer this as an option for free accounts, and unfortunately, many users aren't in the know on how to use it when they do.