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by ozziegooen 4704 days ago
Apparently they just cut off all email access. From Facebook: "Could you please at least forward the messages for a couple of days to some other e-mail accounts? I can't reset/change the e-mails I used on other websites because they require validation PER EMAIL." "While I approve of what you've chosen to do, I just purchased a decade of advance service from you, and you've left no contact addresses or information. Who are your customers supposed to speak to at this time?" "i do respect your decision. But as a long time lavabit customer(8 or so years) I am very upset. I have paid money every year to upgrade and have spam protection and now lost all my emails. I would have liked some notice and a forwarding option for us." https://www.facebook.com/KingLadar?fref=ts
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I doubt they truly have much choice in the matter. It sounds more like a pull-the-plug-and-run sort of situation than one that leaves any actual planning. As their servers now just flat out don't have an SMTP service running, it seems like a fairly reasonable guess.