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zaptor

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#274408 20-Aug-2020 19:06
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Greetings,

 

An acquaintance has unfortunately forgotten her password to an existing Microsoft account. She's had the account for several years. Unfortunately, the recovery email is for a paradise address.

 

The Microsoft account has several years of correspondence and records related to her business.

 

Her memory has been fading, and the password is something she can no longer recall.

 

Is there anyone I can contact at Vodafone to somehow sort out a temporary forwarding arrangement for the paradise account in question. Basically, we just need to forward/access/capture the recovery code for the Microsoft account question. Obviously, once the Microsoft account is recovered we would update the recovery email.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 


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  #2546526 20-Aug-2020 19:23
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Probably not. They have stopped forwarding emails. Email services are all closed down.

https://www.vodafone.co.nz/emailforwarding/ 




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  #2546570 20-Aug-2020 20:33
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dylanp: Probably not. They have stopped forwarding emails. Email services are all closed down.

https://www.vodafone.co.nz/emailforwarding/

 

Because I am a moron, I  forgot to change my Keeper email address from my @paradise.net.nz and had to start from scratch

 

its the only thing I missed 

 

 





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  #2546610 20-Aug-2020 21:10
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Nope, servers are probably long gone by now.




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  #2546637 20-Aug-2020 22:01
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Zero chance


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  #2546905 21-Aug-2020 10:56
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They MIGHT do this as a one off , maybee .

 

The chances of being able to talk to someone in their help/support services who can organise this : that will zero   :-)


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  #2546906 21-Aug-2020 10:57
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You will have to get onto microsoft to get them to manually reset the password. I know of people that have had success with that and providing them with information. It's not an encryption key or anything so they are able to recover it. But as its a free service they have little reason to for people.





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  #2546913 21-Aug-2020 11:04
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Does she have ANY devices that can still access that MS email a/c . Laptop , phone , old PC, tablet ?
If so, there might be some hope .

 


Also , Look in the browsers for saved passwords (& see if passes are saved in Win credential manager, & Outlook setup etc ) .
Sometimes a password is re-used for several things , so you my get lucky & find a saved password for something else that may work .

 

Be carefull you dont get that MS a/c locked after too many failed pass attempts .


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  #2546941 21-Aug-2020 11:48
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Is there a Microsoft helpdesk that can be called who might be able to help?

If you explain the situation, they might be able to ask some security questions and assist.

I had my MyLotto account I hadn't used for a while tied to my old Paradise account. I'd forgotten my password to that, and couldn't use the reset password. In this instance I was able to call lotto support and have them update the account email

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  #2546994 21-Aug-2020 13:12
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dylanp:

 

Probably not. They have stopped forwarding emails. Email services are all closed down.

https://www.vodafone.co.nz/emailforwarding/ 

 

 

Thanks for the response.

 

So, emailing the old account appears to get bounced by the vodafone MX server. Which implies CC'ing a response (like the "User unknown ..." one), to a designated account temporarily is not out of the realms of possibility? (the original sender still gets the "nobody lives here anymore" response, and the original payload containing the recovery code can be delivered to someone who really needs it - assuming the rejection email is sent/received before the recovery code expires).

 

I don't imagine you guys are planning to un-park paradise.net.nz anytime soon?

 

The person in question has been a VF customer for years, using the old account for her business. It's just a really unfortunate situation that's happened.

 

I'd be happy to liase with whoever to sort out any technical details client-side.


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  #2547005 21-Aug-2020 13:41
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2s job for anyone with the access to the DNS.....  fire up a basic mail server on a VM such as Hmail, point mx to it, let user grab their email, shut down server.

 

 





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  #2547013 21-Aug-2020 13:51
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xpd:

 

2s job for anyone with the access to the DNS.....  fire up a basic mail server on a VM such as Hmail, point mx to it, let user grab their email, shut down server.

 

 

Hmmm.... that seems like a nice option


 
 
 
 

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  #2547385 21-Aug-2020 23:45
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That would be nice for those who need to pw reset other accounts

 

as a one off.

 

I have a gmail that i want to recover as well..........linked to my old ihug.co.nz address

 

 

 

 


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  #2547386 21-Aug-2020 23:55
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I wonder if they will let the domain expire


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  #2547388 22-Aug-2020 01:39
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It would be a massive security fail if they let the domain expire and someone create a new email server to capture all the old paradise mail. 


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  #2547408 22-Aug-2020 08:10
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I doubt they would let the domain lapse for a long, long time - and they wouldn't stand up the mail server again either. Plenty of notice was given before these addresses were shut down.


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