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Re: All email gone
28-01-2024 1:47 PM
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I’ve had a reply from the help team on the archived mail thread saying they can’t see any evidence of it being archived but they can see that it’s all gone. It’s been raised with the mail team.
Re: All email gone
02-02-2024 11:44 AM
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Latest update is that they have not been archived but they are still investigating why they have disappeared. The only folder which didn’t get emptied is Sent items.
Re: All email gone
02-02-2024 1:44 PM
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Oh Dear!!
What folders were there other than sent items?
If only the inbox, then one should consider the possibility of a rouge POP3 email client having emptied the mailbox. In short, is there a possibility that your mail account has been hacked?
POP3 clients only look at the inbox folder and by default, they remove the content of the folder after downloading the emails.
Try sending yourself an email watch for it appearing using webmail. If it then disappears, suspect that there is a POP3 client somewhere. If you have not set up the dame, change your password immediately.
If you have used the same email address and password combination elsewhere (Amazon, Netflix, etc) then change the passwords there as well.
In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
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Re: All email gone
02-02-2024 2:13 PM
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Thanks for your further thoughts @Townman.
I have various folders for categorising emails, both in my main <username> account and the catchall+<username> account. On both accounts all folders except Sent ended up empty. If it were a POP3 client which downloaded all the mails then (a) it would have to have been set up to access both email accounts, and (b) I would have thought that a POP3 client would have emptied Sent as well? My PN password is unique to those accounts, not used anywhere else. Since the event mails have been accumulating in both accounts, nothing has disappeared since so it was a one-off event (so far!). I’ve tried Googling to see if any other Thunderbird users have had a similar experience but not come up with anything.
Re: All email gone
02-02-2024 3:00 PM
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In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
If this post helped, please click the Thumbs Up and if it fixed your issue, please click the This fixed my problem green button below.
Re: All email gone
02-02-2024 11:07 PM
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After digging around a bit it seems that POP3 only accesses the Inbox on the server - if that is the case then a POP3 client wouldn’t have been able to empty all my other folders.
Re: All email gone
on 08-02-2024 12:19 PM - last edited on 09-02-2024 1:49 PM by Baldrick1
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Well I'm getting no joy at all from support. A Support Question was created, and for a while I could read messages in it (mostly saying that the date for it to be looked at was being bumped on by a day or two every day or two) and respond. Now I cannot respond to it. The last message on it was three days ago and looked like this:
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Dear Mr Bees,
Kind regards,
<Redacted>
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That was it - no content other than "Dear" and "Regards". I'm only posting this on here because I'm out of ideas. My email hasn't been restored and support seem to have given up on me without telling me (or telling me why). What's the process for escalating?
Personal information removed from a public forum (to an area that staff can see).
Re: All email gone
09-02-2024 1:56 PM
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Raise a complaint , the link to the 'complaints code of practice' is on the bottom of every forum page
You can do it by raising a complaint ticket from the member centre ( a complaint is about the only type of ticket that a user can create now...)
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 10:15 AM
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Sad to hear this and even more sad to hear that I am not the only one this has happened to as plusnet has also 'archived' all my emails in January and is unable to restore them (apparently have no backup copies !!!!) so heaven knows what happens if they have a cyber attack
So firstly anyone who has plusnet email via IMAP Id suggest you BACKUP NOW as it doesnt appear that they keep long term backups of amil content
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I have been in contact with our back-end team to double check the back up servers and it has been confirmed that we have only got upto 21/01/2024 as the last back up. As the emails were archived on 11/01/2024, this means anything prior to 11/01/2024 no longer exists. Please accept my sincerest apologies for this.
I have passed on my case to the ombudsman but they have very little power to force plusnet to do anything
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 3:26 PM
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@MikeBz - I'm sorry to hear about what's gone on and I would hate to think that we have missed something when we could have helped so if you want to DM us your username so we can look, that would be great
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 4:11 PM
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Thanks @James30 , I've sent you a DM.
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 4:12 PM
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@bar8s in my case the emails weren't even archived, I wasn't near the quota, they just disappeared.
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 4:39 PM - edited 14-02-2024 4:42 PM
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@MikeBz - Ahh I see, email just vanishing is quite common, not due to mistakes but because of POP3, in it's design if you setup our email using the mail.plus.net instead of imap.plus.net server that will clear out all emails and are managed on the PC from then on and because we don't have a very flashy mail platform we can't reverse that. Even turning on a old PC that had pop3 setup will wipe the server. Do any of those things sound possible for your circumstances?
@bar8s - Feel free to PM us your username too thanks. Thanks
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 5:03 PM
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@James30 No I only use IMAP, haven't used POP3 for decades. The only email clients I use are Thunderbird on Win10 (which has never been configured for POP3) and the Apple mail apps on iPhone/iPad.
Re: All email gone
14-02-2024 5:33 PM
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@MikeBz Have you logged into the webmail directly to see if your emails are there?
This will tell us if they have disappeared from the server or just the client site you're using.
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