VIRGIN MEDIA CUSTOMERS / HAVE YOU EMAILED ME?

You have email

 

Oh dear, sorry to hear that FC , doubt many of us back up emails specifically.

Have to say I left Virgins /ntl email system some years ago as it was always breaking down and could not send or receive mails for one or two days at a time.

Think you would be much better using one of the more popular big names like Gmail or Outlook.

If you use an email client like Thunderbird ( great free program) and POP then you will always have a copy of all the mails on your own PC as well as the providers servers.

 

I have Thunderbird running on Ubuntu Linux.

 

We were with Nynex, then Cable and Wireless, then NTL and now Virgin.
My e-mail address is ntl.
I checked and haven't lost anything. Though I don't use Virgin, I use Windows 10 mail, it just duplicates it all.
Anything important I copy to paper and file. I also keep address book on my laptop and back it up on a separate hard drive.

Every now and then I go onto Virgin and delete the lot.

 

I have been with Telewest which was taken over by Virgin , since 2000 . I use Microsoft Outlook as my mail server. All my emails are stored on an archive PST file , which in turn is backed up to the cloud . I just got used to using Outlook from my working days , I only use the web based email for reading mails on my tablet.
So you are saying if you use web based email and there is a problem , the company do not have a backup archive ? Could be a problem if you are running a business on it .

 

Any important emails I forward to another of my addresses with another provider, plus occasionally download all of my gmails using Google Takeout

Another one to think about is downloading all your text messages from your phone to computer, there are apps to do this.

 

What texts?

Don't send, or receive any.
My mobile lives in the front ashtray of my car, for emergencies, or "justgetmes"

Am I missing something?

 

Communications

 

I'm a blueyonder e mailer, I sometimes have problems with it, but touch wood, no loss of messages.

 

Hi,

Sounds like you are still going to stay with VM for a while..?

I'd suggest opening a few free accounts with Gmail or MS, or both, and slowly migrate your mail onto them.

You never know when VMs mail is going to crash out again, plus if you went to another ISP you may have to move anyway.

 

I use Virgin and have a ntlworld email. Mine are still all there this morning - tempting fate! I do the same as @HarryS - also use Outlook and everything goes into a PST file, although I wouldn't be completely bothered if I lost the lot. I rarely search back through old emails using the VM app, Outlook is much better at searching.

You could set up an autoforward from your VM email to a free hotmail/gmail account as backup.