<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Stephen loves Starwood:
The only good that has happened is a lesson I have finally learned. I am now going into all my Web-based e-mail service providers and if there is any e-mail that I would like to keep (but not print) I am forwarding them to myself at a pop3 account so at least I will have the e-mails regardless of accessibility.
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I have a number of web-based email accounts. The only ones I use to any extent now are ones which have an auto-forwarding option. (... this is getting very rare, I'm afraid.)
This way, there's another copy of every email I get on a Unix server elsewhere. Also, a lot of the time when web-based email systems go wrong, it's the web front end that's dead. The mail processing part may still be forwarding email on to your other account in those situations.