jeallen01
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You may have noticed that, yesterday (Mon 19th June) your VM email wasn't working and that VM didn't seem to have offered any explanation.
Well, nothing from VM showed up in the normal email streams on my PCs - but when looking at the VM account on my phone in far more detail than normal this morning, I discovered a VM email just before midnight last night saying that the email services had been restored after being absent most of yesterday. However, it also said that all previous emails into Inboxes would not show up but should be accessible "sometime" in the future because VM staff were working to restore them (but on an undefined timescale).
In the meantime, customers were advised to contact the senders of missing emails if they needed to find out what was in them!! Catch 22 maybe? !!
All very odd!!!
PS: It seems like it was a good job that, over a year ago, I moved almost all of my internet accounts away from using VM as the route to contact me!
OTOH, it does highlight that using a single email address can be a risky business if something like this VM saga can and does happen - and will likely happen again in the near future with all those hackers and ransomware pirates in play!
Well, nothing from VM showed up in the normal email streams on my PCs - but when looking at the VM account on my phone in far more detail than normal this morning, I discovered a VM email just before midnight last night saying that the email services had been restored after being absent most of yesterday. However, it also said that all previous emails into Inboxes would not show up but should be accessible "sometime" in the future because VM staff were working to restore them (but on an undefined timescale).
In the meantime, customers were advised to contact the senders of missing emails if they needed to find out what was in them!! Catch 22 maybe? !!
All very odd!!!
PS: It seems like it was a good job that, over a year ago, I moved almost all of my internet accounts away from using VM as the route to contact me!
OTOH, it does highlight that using a single email address can be a risky business if something like this VM saga can and does happen - and will likely happen again in the near future with all those hackers and ransomware pirates in play!