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Help with paypal and old email.

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:24 am
by Azathoth
I’ve been trying to get into an old paypal account that I haven't used in a few years. I was registered with a Freeserve email which I also haven’t used in years.

Will this email still be accessible?

I remember Freeserve was taken over by Orange but no joy on their site. Any ideas guys?

Re: Help with paypal and old email.

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:47 am
by Diziet Sma
A little poking around turned up this post, which might help..

http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed-Con ... d-p/369321
Re: Suddenly can't use old freeserve email
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on ‎04-01-2012 15h09

Thanks for coming back.

I persisted though going into the Orange page which required me to log in but this wasn't accepted. Then I saw the password had to be reset as I hadn't logged in since early July & a new password was required after 31/7/11. That didn't work, but didn't surprise me as I'm not a customer any more.

I rummaged around old links I had for previous account retrievals.

https://membercentre.orange.co.uk/MCPre ... ortsitemap

Just put in my freeserve email & put in the old password, then it took me to the account retrieval page, then the next page that asks you to print off the page then download something. I remember from previous resettings that I had to every 90 days. That once you are at this page your account is retrieved & no more action is required, don't download or install anything!

This is odd as when I was a customer I never used the wanadoo or orange emails just the freeserve one & I had to reactivate that after 90 days. Well it is 176 days since I left Orange, yet I have read elsewhere reactivation would be needed after 219 days. So looks like I ought to dump the freeserve within the next 43 days in case I get chopped off then.:smileywink:
Maybe also see if this page can help:
http://www.bigthinka.net/support/freese ... count.html

Good luck!