I chose not to renew my .Mac account

I decided not to renew my .Mac account this year. There were two main reasons for this. Firstly I was very disappointed with the service; I was unable to receive my mail or to access my home computer during the time I was traveling last year in N and S America. [Instead I used Google for free.] Secondly I prefer to back up to an external hard drive, so was not using the Backup feature.
Since my subscription expired I have been unable to receive any email. I do not expect to receive any using the .mac address, but I do expect to receive on the address I have always used.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had this experience as I want to fix it asap.

yes, I can remember way back when, that I got email from Apple asking me if I wanted
“my name” dot “Mac” dot “com”
as my email address, and it was free for life or two years, which ever came first. It brings a to my face.

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