Hi thanks Richard
I can confirm that the manual polling enabled and email in settings are still enabled.
I added my gmail address as a custom address to the staff category, but I can’t see a way to send messages to staff via the forum? All ‘contact us’ links are set up in forum settings text as mailto: links that just go to my personal everyday email address - clicking on one of those just opens my email application, prepopulated with my personal direct email address, meaning the forum would never receive the message.