# Email not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosting Support\ **Created:** [September 9, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/email-not-working/51076 "2021-09-09T12:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/admin/32/36437_2.png) [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/email-not-working/51076/5 "2021-09-09T17:21:34Z")
I once wrote a long post detailing all the reasons why I absolutely hate the email service that was offered, and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemies to ever have an email service like that ever again. > [@What would the new Email protocol be like in InfinityFree?](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-would-the-new-email-protocol-be-like-in-infinityfree/31969/4): > > TL;DR: The free hosting email system was a dumpster fire. We want to give our users a good service and the email system was very far from that. We’re not going to bring it back. Save yourself the time and the headache and forget that we ever offered email. Before I can address the idea, I would first like to clarify a bit why email was disabled in the first place. The official reason as published is “spam issues”. That’s it. No context and no explanations. In this forum, you’ll see quite a fe… Will there be an email service again? Probably not, but never say never. Will it be as it was before? Under no condition ever! And thank you for the example @Greenreader9 that even more than a year after writing the post, the notion that it was abused still hasn’t been abandoned, even though it’s completely false. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/email-not-working/51076)._