This article was published on January 19, 2009

Lycos Email Shutting Up Shop and That’s Not All…


Lycos Email Shutting Up Shop and That’s Not All…

picture-123One of the Europe’s largest email providers is official closing down.

As of February 15 2009, Telefónica owned Lycos Europe will be shutting down all “non profitable activities” indefinitely, this includes it’s email service and website creation service Tripod.

Below is the email sent to Lycos mail users. There is still no news on a solution to transfer users email over to another service, presumably you’re best off using imap/pop and downloading the email to a local email client.

Dear User,

We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.

One of the activities that will be discontinued is our E-mail business division. For this reason, we are hereby terminating your account as of 15 February 2009. Currently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed to do so, we will inform you within the next 4 weeks. But as this is currently doubtful, we would like to ask you to assume the end of the service.

Prior to this date, you may continue to log in to your e-mail account and receive and send mail as usual. After this date, however, we will close your account and delete all content and access authorizations stored with Lycos in relation to your e-mail account, in accordance with legal requirements.

You will then no longer be able to receive or send e-mail under your e-mail address. The contents of your mailbox will also no longer be accessible. For this reason, we ask that you back up all important data from your Lycos e-mail account in the next few days and switch to another e-mail provider.

Should you still be entitled to services for any additional paid options, we will of course reimburse the balance to the bank account you provided.

We regret this measure and would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us.

Kind regards,

Your LYCOS Mail Team

**Update**

Robin at Techcrunch has also discovered that Jubii a “communication tool” of sorts will be closing down along with Lycos Mail and Tripod. Jubii, was acquired back in 2000 when it was a Danish search service.

Read more at Blogstorm, PaidContent and Techcrunch

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