Email Folder missing

[#1]

Yesterday, I noticed that a 'Saved' folder I had manually added to my Inbox a while ago is no longer there on either my MAC mail account, Outlook account or Webmail. I stored a lot of personal and sentimental emails in there that I need back desperately! I have not deleted them, so I can only presume there is an issue with the Plusnet email servers. I have looked under settings in webmail and there are only the default email folders that are subscribed to-not my 'Saved' folder. Please help, desperately!

[#2]

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@Jonathandfhill wrote:

I have looked under settings in webmail and there are only the default email folders that are subscribed to-not my 'Saved' folder. Please help, desperately!

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So does your "Saved" folder appear in the Folder Administration list - possibly without the SUBSCRIBED to tick box being ticked?  See the folder admin "cog" icon at the bottom of the webmail screen.

Are all the other folders populated.

You infer that you added the Saved Folder on your MAC - is that configured as POP3 or IMAP?  If POP3 then any such folder will be local to the machine and not visible to the server / other IMAP clients such as Webmail.  Check it for local datafiles.

[#3]

The 'saved' folder does not appear in the folder administration list and every box is populated (see screenshot below).

Emails on my various devices (phone, iPad and MAC) are all configured as IMAP.

I have done nothing to delete this folder at all: it has just suddenly disappeared, so it must be a Plusnet issue and I hope they can restore it as soon as possible!

Thanks

[#4]

Is the folder to be found within either of the deleted folders?

[#5]

Unfortunately not. Nothing at all in any of the folders apart from stuff I've recemtly deleted. Even emails that were in my inbox that I had not deleted have disappeared including tickets to various events that I will need.

[#6]

I can get our guys to show the folders on the server side if you want?

[#7]

Yea please if I can get them back. I did phone the Plusnet helpline on Monday and they said they would get the ‘tech team’ to unarchive the emails. Nothing has happened yet though so if you could do that, I would be very grateful. I just don’t know why they would have been archived. It’s not right! Thanks.

[#8]

Not sure what has happened myself with the unarchiving but I can see there were archived due to high storage, I have raised a task now for you! I'll get back to you on Tuesday to see if its all better.

[#9]

Thanks

[#10 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your patience. You should have your emails back now @Jonathandfhill !

[#11]

Many thanks . Lifesaver 👍🏻 Any way to make sure this doesn’t happen again?

[#12]

PlusNet has a limit of (I think) 1GB for all of your email accounts (it's a total for your whole PlusNet account, not per email account).

You should get an email warning you if you have exceeded that limit, which tells you emails will be archived.

[#13]

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@Jonathandfhill wrote:
Many thanks . Lifesaver 👍🏻 Any way to make sure this doesn’t happen again?

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Do effective regular house keeping on your emails.  Trash the junk and if you must keep substantial volumes of historic emails, establish your own archiving system ... and remember to keep your own back-sup.

Something which many people do is to use email as a file transfer service (share photographs) rather than use a more appropriate technology.  I know of some people who use email to transfer photos from their phone to their computers.  They might delete the received email after saving the photo to their PC (or cloud storage) but they forget to delete the sent copy as well.  Some do not bother to store the attachments locally, but leave them in their email mailbox.

[#14]

My email folders are now restored, but I, + my Wife and Daughter, can longer send emails from our accounts using Mac Mail, (although we can receive no problem). Never been a problem before. The settings are the ones recommended on the Plusnet email settings page for IMAP, and I am also now not able to send using Webmail (whereas I was able to before). I get an error message on webmail: SMTP Error (535): Authentication failed. Help please!

[#15]

Oh dear!!

To be sure that all of the facts are known...

1. Using webmail you can log into all of the mailboxes, read emails but not send emails?  Please describe EXACTLY what happens when you attempt to send an email using https://webmail.plus.net
2. Are you still a Plusnet broadband subscriber ... or is this a legacy free email account?
3. If a free email account, have you changed the mailbox password recently?