Closed Virgin Email Accounts
Now that my Virgin email account has recently been closed after over 25 years it seems that anyone sending a Virgin email to me now does not get an error message to say that the email address no l...
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Your mailbox is probably in a 'locked' condition prior to deletion. See below for the experience of one of the VIP users, 用心棒, and the closure of their virgin.net mailbox
https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/Virgin-Net-Email/m-p/5589405#M281647
I recently tried sending an email to a Virgin email address account that closed a couple of years ago and have not received an error message regarding non-delivery! Virgin Media you must program non-delivery messages into your email system out of respect for all those many years of loyalty from all us Virgin Email clients.
It is possible that your mailbox was not fully deleted a couple of years ago and still exists in some sort of twilight/locked condition if you are not getting undeliverable messages.
The fact that VM has not completely deleted some orphaned mailboxes in the past is, in part, why VM is in this current mess of now deleting lots of mailboxes which are not linked to an active VM broadband subscription.
