Your address does not change
Connect the mailbox you already have. Nothing moves, and there is no new address to learn.
Alternatives
Optimum email looks after optimum.net, optonline.net, and suddenlink.net addresses. If one of them is the address your family uses to reach you, keep it. Patriot Mail opens your Optimum mail in a calm inbox that is easy to read, and your mail stays with Optimum.
Your optonline.net or suddenlink.net address does not need replacing. Patriot Mail connects the Optimum mailbox you already have, and everything in it stays put.
Add the account with your full address and your usual Optimum password. There is nothing to turn on in your Optimum settings first.
Unsubscribe from newsletters in one tap, and delete every message from one sender at once. Block a sender, or a whole company by blocking its domain, and block as many as you like at no charge.
Patriot Mail is free, with no subscription and no trial that ends. Your messages are not permanently stored on Patriot Mail servers, and your inbox data is not sold or used for advertising.
Yes. Suddenlink addresses use the same Optimum email service, and they connect the same way.
Your normal Optimum email password. There is no extra password to create.
Yes. It is free to use, with no subscription and no trial that ends.
Ready when you are
Connect the mailbox you already use and get a calmer inbox in about a minute. Free, with no subscription, and the address you have had for years stays exactly where it is.