I'm glad i looked into this! just noticed a lack of emails today and yesterday then googled and found the forum!
surely customers should have been emailed before the switch on (so they'd still get thru

) and told them to set their preferences so no email would be lost.
still, i think they should be commended for finally doing something about it.
the auto deletion was probably to ease the load on their servers!
thanks to everyone for the info!