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Originally Posted by Chris
I stopped using ISP email more than 10 years ago thanks to NTLWorld and its notoriously flaky service. One of the recurring complaints back in the days of the original Nthellworld.com was the email, and the standard response was that we shouldn't expect the email to work because it was a free 'extra' (despite being listed as one of the benefits under the headline £25 per month or whatever it was at the time).
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I never had an issue with flakiness but learned the hard way about lack of portability of ISP email addresses, if you depend on them for everything you lose them when you change ISP - if you were to move somewhere where VM isn't available even trying to stay with the same ISP wouldn't help.