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Retrieve emails

Glenn and Becky Donlan 0 Reputation points
2025-07-17T14:48:46.3466667+00:00

How do I retrieve my emails that I can not find due to my subscription expiring. It has been less than 24 hrs, but I was expecting important emails.

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  1. Diane P 7,815 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-07-17T15:28:46.7366667+00:00

    If your subscription expired and mail bounced because you were over quota, Microsoft does not hold the mail when the mailbox is over quota, it rejects it and it's up the sending server to retry. Most sending servers will retry for up to 72 hours, others will just drop the message and not try again.

    If it was less than 24 hours, mail that bounced should arrive within 24 hours, if the server is going to resend.

    -- Diane

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