Sky migrated from Gmail to Yahoo mail but left emails behind

SuperHan

Do you not feel trapped by the idea that you can never change internet provider....

Altarf

miniemma wrote: »

Thanks Altarf, I have already done that but there are many many users who will have been scared off even by instruction number one.

So surely people who needed their old emails *and* were technologically literate could easily have set themselves up last November when this was announced, and would have not suffered.

Those that need their old emails and are not capable of following those instructions merely need to contact Sky and wait a month.

It doesn't really seem a big deal either way.

If Sky were telling people "tough luck, all your old emails are gone forever", then I could see the point, but merely needing to wait a short while if you have not been proactive in the 4-5 month notice period...

miniemma

Superhan - Sky advertised their email as 'for life' and I believe it still is otherwise I would not have used it.

Altarf - Up until 2 days ago Sky were indeed saying forward them one at a time or tough luck. My initial post was written after a month of frustration.

And yes, I should have backed them up earlier. <hits self about the head for trusting Sky to get it right!>

mattyprice4004

fluffnutter wrote: »

If you wouldn't have kept them if they'd been on paper, then the same applies to electronic communications. The idea that there's no space requirement involved in keeping electronic data (or at least not physical space in your own living room) just taps into the secret hoarder in all of us. It's bad for the psyche. Get rid of the cyberjunk! Feel free!

fluffnutter indeed

mttylad

AFAIK there is no longer any access to the gmail servers to get the old mails so the methods suggested will be unlikely to work.


My 222,143 emails take up 5.3gb, these days its not a lot of space and I can back them up onto various online servers if I wanted to.

ThumbRemote

fluffnutter wrote: »

If you wouldn't have kept them if they'd been on paper, then the same applies to electronic communications. The idea that there's no space requirement involved in keeping electronic data (or at least not physical space in your own living room) just taps into the secret hoarder in all of us. It's bad for the psyche. Get rid of the cyberjunk! Feel free!

Electronic communications aren't paper though, so your whole argument is meaningless.

People probably said the same centuries back. "If you wouldn't have kept the slates, it's not worth keeping the paper".