Last night before going to work I noticed that I hadn’t got any email since about 1500. Not that I get that much email but it seemed a bit odd. This morning after work and early this afternoon when I got up, I still had no new mail. I checked my quota on my mail hosting service and had used less than half of my quota. I saw from my Gmail account that forwards mail to my hosting service that my forwards were getting rejected due to a full mail box.
Well that was puzzling. After contacting tech support, I found that I had not used up the physical capacity of my mail box but had reached the limit of the number of messages I could have in my mailbox, which was 3000. The tech kindly upped my quota to 6000.
I asked him what good the record of physical usage was if the quota was based both on that and the number of messages. He said that I had to monitor the number of messages in my account via webmail. I asked if there was any kind of alerting to let users know when they were nearing either quota and was told that there was not.
Thankfully, I am not trying to run a business using this email because the lost emails could cost me money. I think I would have to change hosting services were I to have a business dependent on email. I think that my hosting service needs to reconsider its approach.
Anyhow, I did not get email for about 24 hours starting yesterday at 1500 so I you sent me an email between then and now, please resend it.