Can You Download Plusnet Emails from Webmail?

[#1]

All the better hosting providers use sub domains as that is (effectively) the user’s personal address space and facilities the freedom to have whatever email addresses a user chooses.

Those not providing sub domains as single individual email addresses. For a single individual using a single address for everything the Plusnet approach might seem unnecessary, but for families or where one wants to use different email addresses to isolate senders, the Plusnet approach is a godsend.

[#2]

No argument with any of that. My concern is the clients propensity to make (sometimes incorrect) assumptions when trying to be 'helpful'.

[#3]

Thanks again jab1 - I found the 'tick all 'icon and checking spam and sent helpful so I am steadily working my way through those emails between new hard drive and setting up Outlook.  Regarding the Thunderbird - Plusnet gave me all sorts of numbers and words to try and none of them worked - one even got the manager to try.  They don't seem to know a lot about email setups!  Because my previous hard drive (in an eighteen month Acer!!) failed suddenly - I lost all my recent stuff which hadn't been backed up.

[#4]

OK Liiz - just don't forget to empty the 'Deleted' folder, otherwise your utilisation percentage won't change - until you do that, the mail is still on the server.

 As regards setting up TB - if you ever want to try again - let us know, and someone will guide you. I set mine up many years ago when they weren't so 'helpful', so you had to enter all the details manually - these days they 'guess' a lot of the settings, and quite often get them wrong.

[#5]

Direct download of Plusnet emails to a PCs hard disk was discussed on a thread a few weeks ago:

Saving Emails

https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Saving-Emails/td-p/1913146

The downloaded files are in a suitable format for use by an email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird.