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If you are relying on a third-party cloud email service, please keep a regular backup of your data. From random hacking attempts leading to a account lockout to
by nivla 13y ago
If you are relying on a third-party cloud email service, please keep a regular backup of your data. From random hacking attempts leading to a account lockout to incorrectly being marked for spamming violations, anything could go wrong. The easiest way is to install Thunderbird and let it automatically sync and backup your emails to your computer.
- VLM 13y agoFrom past experience at an email service provider, admittedly a small one, and quite a few years ago, the most likely failure mode related to internet outages knocking out the customer's internal email unlike a locally hosted email server which customers could never seem to understand, and DNS issues (failure to renew, got scammed / domain stolen because of noobs, etc). Probably the single biggest support problem was people (on either side) getting on spammer lists so genuine business communication can no longer flow. Generally speaking the web interface being down, or the imap server being bonkers, was very rarely if ever a problem.