TOM Mail is an email service with a history of more than 20 years. The current operator is Thunderbolt Corporation (TOM Group, a company under Li Ka-shing and Cheung Kong Holdings). However, the TOM Mail free version is now going to stop its service.
According to the information released by @如有乐享，the TOM Mail free version will stop its service on September 13, 2024, and all data will be cleared on September 27. Therefore, users of the TOM Mail free version need to back up their data in a timely manner, otherwise they may lose their email correspondence and attachments.
TOM Mail provides various types of mailboxes, including VIP Mailbox (vip.tom.com/163.net/163vip.com), corporate mailboxes, and free mailboxes. The service that is being discontinued this time is the TOM Free Mailbox.
The long-established email service TOM Mail will stop supporting the free version on September 13 and clear the data after September 27.
It is worth noting that as of the publication of this article, TOM Mail has not issued an official announcement, but has notified free version mailbox users via email. Therefore, the specific details are not clear for now, but paid mailboxes are not affected.
For users, the easiest way to distinguish between types is whether it is paid and the email suffix. If you use the email suffix tom.com, you may be affected, so it is best to directly enter TOM Mail to export and back up all data.
If there are a large number of emails that need to be transferred, you can also use the Microsoft Outlook desktop client (specifically the Win32 version), log in to TOM Mail and other mailboxes using the IMAP protocol, and then directly move all emails to another mailbox through the Outlook desktop client. Once the data is synchronized, it will be complete.
However, it is not clear whether this method can back up attachments for now. Blue Dot Network has only tried transferring emails before and did not pay attention to the attachment issue, so please carefully check when backing up emails with attachments, and you can also manually download them to save locally.
Back in the day, I used to bind SMS service for 5 yuan a month. Slowly, Tencent's QQ Mail became an unlimited mailbox, and I gradually gave up on TOM, switching to NetEase (mail.163.com) and Tencent (mail.qq.com) mailboxes. This closure doesn't have a big impact.