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That's a shame.

I use this to send emails to a couple of older family members who are happy using Facebook but don't use any 'real' email address. Is there any chance they'll keep some forwarding option around?

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As the article says, they will forward it the email the user signed up with, which is of course required to use Facebook so your relatives must have one (even if they don't check it).

Ah, thanks. Missed that. So it doesn't look like there will be a way of getting an email in to their Facebook inbox.

Unfortunately my grandmother never quite figured out email but she's very comfortable with Facebook.

And now ask yourself a question why would they want to do that? I mean why keep unneeded load on their servers and support whole infrastructure just to forward e-mail. Probably because they want to continue to reading your e-mails but now they don't have to invest into storage. Just copy the interesting ones for themselves.

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