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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Once your mailbox is fully deleted, emails to your legacy mailbox should start causing undeliverable messages.
If that doesn't happen, a VM forum team person should reply here in a few days and should be able to ensure your legacy mailboxes are fully deleted.
“Once your mailbox is fully deleted, emails to your legacy mailbox should start causing undeliverable messages.”
Err, well not necessarily, depends on how the MTA has been configured.
A bit like ‘Ravenstar68’, I do know what I am talking about!
For those that don’t know. A Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) is an email server software that receives and relays emails. An MTA receives messages from another MTA or from a Mail User Agent (MUA), which is a computer application that end users use to access or send emails.
My question continues. How do I contact the person responsible to make any Virgin.net emails sent to my closed account show “Message not delivered” ?
VM's mail exchangers definitelty respond correctly in that regard.
Just checked with my old blueyonder.co.uk address which I know for a fact has been deleted.
And just to clarify all four Virgin Media email domains use the same mail exchangers, so if the mailbox has been deleted properly it should definitely be throwing a 550 5.1.1 MXIN501 <email address> unknown error.
The Forum Team should be along presently so they can take a look and get the info they need to pass to the email team to fully close down the mailbox.
Tim
