Indiatimes Mail Shutting Down
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Oct 19, 2024
Oct 19, 2024
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Gone are the days when people used to have indiatimes.com email IDs. As per the notice displayed on the service's login page, no new registrations are being accepted from now onwards. The notice also says that the service will be discontinued and permanently shut down on 18th February, 2013 at 12 PM (Indian Standard Time).
Indiatimes.com email users won't be able to access their emails after February 18. If you are an Indiatimes email user, you should quickly backup your emails. The best way to do this is to forward all your important emails to your Gmail or Outlook.com email accounts. I never used Indiatimes email, so not sure if they offered POP/IMAP access. If they do - then a better option would be to download all your important email to your local computer.
Note that the email service is being shut down, but your Indiatimes email ID will continue to work on the the entire Indiatimes network. So you will still be able to login with your ID.
It's certainly sad to see an India born email service provider going down. Now the other dominant player remains rediffmail which received a ton of registrations from India in the past several years. I see several new registrations on CrazyEngineers using Rediffmail accounts.
The reasons for this shutdown are not known yet. But the most likely reason seems to be the monetization of the service which is quite difficult. If you have an update on the news, please post below.
Indiatimes.com email users won't be able to access their emails after February 18. If you are an Indiatimes email user, you should quickly backup your emails. The best way to do this is to forward all your important emails to your Gmail or Outlook.com email accounts. I never used Indiatimes email, so not sure if they offered POP/IMAP access. If they do - then a better option would be to download all your important email to your local computer.
Note that the email service is being shut down, but your Indiatimes email ID will continue to work on the the entire Indiatimes network. So you will still be able to login with your ID.
It's certainly sad to see an India born email service provider going down. Now the other dominant player remains rediffmail which received a ton of registrations from India in the past several years. I see several new registrations on CrazyEngineers using Rediffmail accounts.
The reasons for this shutdown are not known yet. But the most likely reason seems to be the monetization of the service which is quite difficult. If you have an update on the news, please post below.
