Adding Lightning, I lost ALL my OLD messages
Hello, after adding the add-on Lightning ?in? my Thunderbird account, I discover that ALL my old messages are away.
How to find/get them back?
I hope somebody can help me!
Thanks in advance,
visje49
angelafromnewjersey wrote:
I upgraded my phone to IOS8 and a few hours later I lost all of my old text messages. It was working for a while and then stopped. Help!
What do you mean it was working for awhile and stopped working? You stated you lost old text message?
either way, you restore from your icloud/iTunes backup to get back those text message.
If you don't have a backup then there is no way to et those message back.
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We moved the server location for the imap and smtp server for a given domain
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