Letters: These tips can help you access your Orange email outside France
Readers share their differing experiences with their orange.fr email accounts
A ‘two-factor’ authentication to an orange.fr email account has caused issues for some when away from France
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To the Editor,
As a second-home owner in Dordogne (I’ve had my house for 25 years), I was interested to read your recent article about the gentleman who cannot access his Orange.fr emails in the UK.
Simple: use a 'floating' email address, as I do. I never use my orange.fr email address.
He should also get a French mobile number.
I subscribe to Free.fr for €2 a month, and have done for years. Some limited texts and calls are allowed, but it is mainly there for when security number notifications need to be sent. It is especially useful when I do my French banking online – the code comes through to the UK no problem.
It is not rocket science – he just needs to work around it, as I have.
Christina Adams, Dordogne
To the Editor,
I have had the same problem as your reader accessing my Orange account. I am in the US so a little far from my Livebox. I also do not have a French mobile because I can use my US phone most of the time and I am not in France often enough to make a second phone worthwhile.
It is not my only way to see my Orange email (I forward it to Gmail) but it is an unnecessary annoyance.
The amusing thing is that the price for the Orange mobile package is pretty reasonable, and I would sign up in a heartbeat if I spent more time at my home in France.
Ron Stack, by email
Have you struggled to access services for your French home when abroad (bills, taxes, email, utilities)? Did you find any solutions? Let us know at [email protected]
