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From: Sara on 4 Aug 2010 05:31 In article <nospam-F29642.20151703082010(a)news.virginmedia.com>, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: > In article <8br053FtsU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > VM being as flaky as a very flaky thing. > > I'm on VM cable and obviously have to use its smtp for outgoing mail. No, you don't. I use several different ones, none of them the VM one. > The fault I was getting over the weekend was on one of my addresses I > use (Compuserve) in the From field - huge delays and failures in > completion. But the other address I quote (BTconnect) was fine, so there > has been some kind of selective fault. > > Overall though I've had fewer email and broadband problems/downtime with > VM cable than with BT ADSL when I had it as an ISP. > > E. -- Sara Run out of ideas for a sig for the moment
From: Rob on 4 Aug 2010 05:50 On 03/08/2010 20:56, bill(a)hotmail.com wrote: > On 03/08/2010 20:33, Rob wrote: >> >> Had a lot of bother with VM. Had the warning emails, but they pointed to >> incorrect settings (I'm blueyonder). >> >> At the moment it works, but every couple of days it'll fail to >> send/receive. The solution for me is to turn SSL on or off. >> >> The VM boards are quite sweet - they nominate a 'Top Kudeod' post - it's >> 'POP3 doesn't use SSL today!' at the moment. > > Thanks for the information, sounds like a real lottery. I'm on Virgin > Net at the moment (we can't get cable here) and it's only inertia > stopping me from changing. I've had the odd problem in the past but > nothing as bad as today. In fairness I think they've had a major hardware failure, and they're having some real problems trying to deal with users from a variety of pre-takeover suppliers. Looking at the forums it's chaos, more or less. It is a bit of a mess all round, and has made me think of using google as my email provider. Rob
From: Chris Ridd on 4 Aug 2010 05:56 On 2010-08-04 10:50:48 +0100, Rob said: > On 03/08/2010 20:56, bill(a)hotmail.com wrote: >> On 03/08/2010 20:33, Rob wrote: >>> >>> Had a lot of bother with VM. Had the warning emails, but they pointed to >>> incorrect settings (I'm blueyonder). >>> >>> At the moment it works, but every couple of days it'll fail to >>> send/receive. The solution for me is to turn SSL on or off. >>> >>> The VM boards are quite sweet - they nominate a 'Top Kudeod' post - it's >>> 'POP3 doesn't use SSL today!' at the moment. >> >> Thanks for the information, sounds like a real lottery. I'm on Virgin >> Net at the moment (we can't get cable here) and it's only inertia >> stopping me from changing. I've had the odd problem in the past but >> nothing as bad as today. > > In fairness I think they've had a major hardware failure, and they're > having some real problems trying to deal with users from a variety of > pre-takeover suppliers. Looking at the forums it's chaos, more or less. > > It is a bit of a mess all round, and has made me think of using google > as my email provider. Note: VirginMedia recently switched to using Google as their email provider. Roughly about the same time the service got even less reliable... Still want to switch? :-) -- Chris
From: bill on 4 Aug 2010 06:49 On 04/08/2010 10:56, Chris Ridd wrote: > Note: VirginMedia recently switched to using Google as their email > provider. Roughly about the same time the service got even less reliable... > > Still want to switch? :-) > During yesterdays problem my GMail account was still working, it was just the Virgin acounts that were crashing Mail.
From: Chris Ridd on 4 Aug 2010 08:11
On 2010-08-04 11:49:56 +0100, bill(a)hotmail.com said: > On 04/08/2010 10:56, Chris Ridd wrote: > >> Note: VirginMedia recently switched to using Google as their email >> provider. Roughly about the same time the service got even less reliable... >> >> Still want to switch? :-) >> > > During yesterdays problem my GMail account was still working, it was > just the Virgin acounts that were crashing Mail. Google must provide VM with local boxes then. But Virgin's mail is definitely Google. -- Chris |