Virgin email

[Maesknoll Red]

Anyone else having issues with it, bloody hopeless service recently.  All of Mrs Maesknoll’s historic emails have gone and I am once again without emails being delivered today.

Who is a decent email provider if I decide to move to another?

[Sir Leigh of Somerset]

37 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Anyone else having issues with it, bloody hopeless service recently.  All of Mrs Maesknoll’s historic emails have gone and I am once again without emails being delivered today.

Who is a decent email provider if I decide to move to another?

Snap.

Virgin Media are a nightmare to be with and especially to deal with.

Only problem is, there's probably not much to choose between all of the providers........

[richwwtk]

Just use Gmail, makes you completely provider independent

[Lanterne Rouge]

21 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

Just use Gmail, makes you completely provider independent

That`s what I did when Virgin decided they couldn`t be arsed to cover our very rural area. Never looked back.

[phantom]

From my streets WhatsApp group lots of neighbours have had problems today (central Weston) 

[Erithacus]

Virgin emails (now run by Talk Talk) fell over earlier this week and caused a lot of problems. Most accounts were back up and running within a day, but some have been badly affected. One of mine was fine but another lost all the historic stuff and emptied the system. This appears to be a tricky headache and they are not able to get everything back as yet. To that end, they will shut down the system from midnight tonight to reset things. We will see if that works.

VIrgin a misery to deal with? Yep.

[Maesknoll Red]

One of my accounts, all mails gone, Mrs M still hasn’t got her emails and yes, they are a nightmare to deal with, but generally for al” the t years I’ve been with them the actual service of TV and Broadband has been pretty good.

I’ve had an issue with a brand new Samsung Fridge Freezer, they are even worse to deal with than Virgin!!!!

[italian dave]

41 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

One of my accounts, all mails gone, Mrs M still hasn’t got her emails and yes, they are a nightmare to deal with, but generally for al” the t years I’ve been with them the actual service of TV and Broadband has been pretty good.

I’ve had an issue with a brand new Samsung Fridge Freezer, they are even worse to deal with than Virgin!!!!

And what’s worse, with a fridge freezer, unplugging it, leaving it for 30 seconds, then plugging it back in rarely works either! 

Edited July 2, 2023 by italian dave

[TRL]

if you are using any emails for confidential messages I would recommend signing up for proton mail, you get 1 email address a certain amount of free storage it is fully encrypted.  They have paid for tiers as well, but i have never found the need and use it purely for confidential email, which doesn't exactly get filled up quickly.

 

Any other general emails which you don't really care if they get compromised then use anything out there, they will all leach your they are all pretty much the same. if you happen to use a lot of google products go with Gmail I guess. I wouldn't trust any of the big vendors with confidential messages though.

 

Anyway that's my twopenneth

[Maesknoll Red]

7 hours ago, TRL said:

if you are using any emails for confidential messages I would recommend signing up for proton mail, you get 1 email address a certain amount of free storage it is fully encrypted.  They have paid for tiers as well, but i have never found the need and use it purely for confidential email, which doesn't exactly get filled up quickly.

 

Any other general emails which you don't really care if they get compromised then use anything out there, they will all leach your they are all pretty much the same. if you happen to use a lot of google products go with Gmail I guess. I wouldn't trust any of the big vendors with confidential messages though.

 

Anyway that's my twopenneth

Interesting, thanks.  Looked them up and found this review

https://restoreprivacy.com/email/reviews/protonmail/#:~:text=Proton Mail utilizes strong end,(more on this later).

Which also links to other secure providers, so I’ll have to have a read through them and see what looks best.

 

[Erithacus]

Another official update: it's still f*****d. But we'll fix it all soon.

[Frenchay Red]

Email from VM yesterday evening to say it's all now restored. Thankfully it was for me, hope everyone else's EM is now sorted.

[Erithacus]

Luck old you, FR. Still no good news here. Could be later this week.

[Frenchay Red]

1 hour ago, Erithacus said:

Luck old you, FR. Still no good news here. Could be later this week.

[Erithacus]

And finally, it's all back. 'We will learn our lessons...', etc.

[Maesknoll Red]

Mrs M has finally got her mails back, seemed to be a bit of a shambles, although I have been with Virgin since they were TV West or whatever it was called back then and whilst they are a nightmare to deal with, the supply of the service (TV/Broadband) is pretty good.