How do I get archived emails back

[#1]

My emails have been archived , how do I get them back

[#2]

Post a request in the topic pinned at the top of this board.

[#3]

Thanks John

Where is the pinned topic ?

[#4]

At the top of the email board, as I said.

[#5]

Hi @Ron31,

I've raised this request to our NetOps Team and will update you via your account once we hear back from them.

[#6]

Can anyone tell me how to request my emails to be unarchived please?

I don't understand what someone said - "post on the link at the top of this board".

[#7]

Thanks for your post @jgalloway

I've looked over your account and I can't see details on your account regarding any e-mails being unarchived.

Can you PM me any screenshots you might have that shows otherwise?

[#8]

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.  My emails prior to Feb 2020 appear to have been archived - I no longer have access to them - so I want to know how I can get them un-archived/de-archived whatever the phrase is I would like to know if I can get them back.

Thanks,

Jane.

[#9]

@jgalloway As @MatthewWheeler says he (as a PN staff member) can't see any notification that your emails have been archived, I'm wondering if they have been?

How do you normally  access your mail - via webmail or a mail client? How many do you think you have lost? Do you delete unwanted ones on a regular basis - and clear the 'deleted' folder afterwards?

[#10]

@MatthewWheeler 

Email archive actions due to non-use of the mailbox do not leave a finger print in the user's ticket history.  This has been raised with @JW asking that this be reviewed so that support agents have unambiguous information regarding mailbox archiving.

Email archiving

Plusnet has two email content archiving 'events'

1. Exceeding the Fair Usage Policy (FUP): This is invoked when the sum of the contents of all of your email boxes exceeds the 1GB FUP allowance. Users will have received warning notices for several weeks, having exceeded 75% of the FUP. After 2 warnings of having exceeded 100% of the FUP, mailboxes are archived to bring the FUP utilisation down below 100%. The act of archiving emails is recorded in the user's ticket history - see the PN tickets link below - notification emails are sent to the contact email address, as specified by the user, under their contact preferences in the account details - it is imperative that this email address is monitored at all times
2. Mailbox not accessed for a while: After a period of not accessing a mailbox (it not being logged into) the contents are archived. An email is sent to that mailbox advising of the archiving action, after it has been archived. No record of the action is recorded in the ticket history

Archives are retained for 30 days. When making a request to unarchive emails, it is very helpful to inform staff which of the above archives appears to have been performed - it stops them looking for non-existent tickets!

Users can lodge a request for a restore here.

[#11]

@Townman I forgot about that - but the OP wasn't clear about when they last accessed the account?

[#12]

John,

They never are and it is never their "fault", though no archive activity ever happens out of the blue, but only after...

1. A user does not access a mailbox for the prescribed period
2. A user fails to implement appropriate email history housekeeping
3. A user ignores the (Plusnet mailbox) FUP warnings which start when the user has used 75% of the FUP
4. A user does not see the FUP warnings because they are not monitoring the postmaster@account.plus.com mailbox
5. Two weeks of further warnings once having exceeded the FUP have been ignored

[#13]

Thanks for getting back to us @jgalloway 

We don't archive a specific range of emails, it'd be either all or nothing if we were to archive your mailbox. I agree with @jab1 do you have your mail setup on a mail client which may have auto-deleted messages from the server?

@Townman wrote:

@MatthewWheeler 

Email archive actions due to non-use of the mailbox do not leave a finger print in the user's ticket history.  This has been raised with @JW asking that this be reviewed so that support agents have unambiguous information regarding mailbox archiving.

We're aware of this.

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@Gandalf wrote:

We're aware of this.

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Some are more aware that others!

@MatthewWheeler wrote:

I've looked over your account and I can't see details on your account regarding any e-mails being unarchived.

Can you PM me any screenshots you might have that shows otherwise?

Is not untypical of a support agent (not knowing this) looking for an email archive ticket (as in a FUP archive) in the context of a mailbox not used archive which does not leave an account level finger-print.  A user would have no evidence to show other than the "content archived" email in the unused mailbox.  Would a support agent go looking for the same?

That said, on rereading what Matthew wrote, he referred to no evidence of "UNarchiving" - which I read "missing" the "UN" and inferring no evidence of archiving.  All a tad confusing!  Jane has not indicated if this mailbox had previously remained unassessed, when emails prior to Feb 2020 disappeared and if it was only part of the contents which disappeared.

If this was just part of a regularly used mailbox, then we are indeed looking at something in the user space, either local archiving tools (as in Outlook 2016/9) or accidental deletion ... or a POP3 client removing stuff from the server after (say) 3 months.

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@Townman wrote:
Is not untypical of a support agent (not knowing this) looking for an email archive ticket (as in a FUP archive) in the context of a mailbox not used archive which does not leave an account level finger-print.  A user would have no evidence to show other than the "content archived" email in the unused mailbox.  Would a support agent go looking for the same?

We wouldn't be able to see the email they've received in this case, so if someone says their mailbox has been archived and we can't see an email notification, I'd expect we'd go prodding for more information then find out the mailbox was archived due to inactivity rather than going over the allowance.

That said, on rereading what Matthew wrote, he referred to no evidence of "UNarchiving" - which I read "missing" the "UN" and inferring no evidence of archiving.  All a tad confusing!

I think Matt's made a typo. Sorry for the confusion. I'll prod him with a big virtual stick.