Verizon email service change

[Papa Steve 55]

So Verizon is dropping email service next month. My two options are to switch to AOL and keep my current address or change to another service and lose it.

How much pain in changing? Honestly, I thought AOL was nothing more than a fond memory. I had used Outlook for years but MS stopped supporting it. Looking at Firefox but also looking for input from others. Its not a real huge part of my life, most of my emails are to my work account.

Can you set up forwarding to a new address.

Thanks for any thoughts. 

[RandallT]

Yah my wife has a Verizon.net address, and we went through their steps to convert. 

The good: it remains free, I believe. The address stayed the same. It's much easier using AOL's email tools than Verizon's.

The bad: Not sure we have any complaints frankly.  Things are way better now. Spam is handled 100x better, saving her much time.