Comments for Will I lose email if I don't check it for a while?

Comment from Zap Coffey-Brittain on 2007-04-01

2007-04-02T00:12:55Z

I also had a break of almost 4 weeks when I moved house, also in the UK, also about 600 yards, caused by "misunderstanding" between the disconnection dept & the reconnection dept of the same company.

We had no phone, internet, cable TV & of course we were unable to check email. Our ISP had a 10MB quota at the time and unfortunately my quota was filled after only about 2 weeks downtime, mostly by a single message over 8MB.

My advice - do stick with a subscribed service & download your email to your own machine instead of leaving it at the ISP server. But make sure your ISP also supplies webmail on the same account (and you know how to use it), so if you ever lose your home internet for an extended period you can still access & manage your email - and delete huge messages that fill up your quota!

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Comment from sadmake on 2007-04-01

2007-04-01T23:52:52Z

thanks for this nice article, this helps me alot ...
and good bye

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Comment from David on 2007-03-31

2007-03-31T18:56:05Z

I had an enforced break of about six weeks due to a "misunderstanding", shall we say, between my phone service supplier and my ISP, here in the UK, after I moved house about six hundred yards(!) and found about 2000 mails spread between all my accounts still available (mostly newsletters I`d signed up for plus goodness how much spam on one particular account) when I finally got back on line again. Probably depends on the mail provider/ISP policies. Read the small print!

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