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I submitted the appeal form, but this is incredibly frustrating. I received an email from my financial advisor who cc'd his assistant. I hit reply all and got my account suspended immediately.

I put up with a lot of missing features because I like the product, but this is insane.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I doubt that's the issue. You need to contact them to find out what the issue is

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That is a good idea, but unfortunately I'm completely locked out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Might want to check your sent mail to see what all is in there ... Maybe your account got hacked and used to send spam (?)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

that would make no sense without any other factors. maybe the content of the email triggered something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I would report this on news.ycombinator.com

There are a lot of eyes there and you might be able to find someone who works at proton

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you got your account suspend because of that ? did you contact support ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Please keep us posted, there has to be more to this than just replying all. Hopefully support can get it sorted out for you quickly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That seems odd. I've replied all to more than two people on many occasions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I can think is that I did it in the web interface and I'm abroad? No idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you're missing sufficient evidence to establish causality. I get that the timing is coincidental but you should be more open to other factors. I hope you were professional when reaching out to Proton support

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I hit the send button and got a red banner message saying my account has been suspended for spam and that it's not intended to be used for sending out mass messages.

I was reasonable with the support message. I know it has nothing to do with them :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Once a quarter I have to send out eeveral emails to a list of about 40 people to scheduling, been doing this for a year with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Maybe that was the moment it checked for authentication at which point it saw you were suspended. So probably nothing to do with clicking reply all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

This makes no sense. You definitely need to follow up with support to find out what happened.