Personally I have an Xtra email addy but I get it forwarded here to Gmail. I just tried to login to Xtra out of curiosity but it displayed some kind of high traffic message and asked me to try again later.
On 21/08/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:54:51 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > >> Did anyone see Xtra's email offline during the weekend > > >> (apparently while they upgraded services to Australia)? > > >> > > > > > > No, but business customers saw xtra email offline this morning, after > > > they shifted from pop3/smtp to pop3s/smtps and turned the old servers > > > off without telling anyone. D'oh. Xtra = incompetence incorporated. > > > > > > > > >> Personally I think Xtra did well to inform customers beforehand. > > >> > > > > > > ROTFL...... > > > > > > Volker > > > > > > > > Continuing to be OT, but do these changes affect xtra customers who send > > and receive email through the smtp and pop services operated by xtra? > > From my reading it is just the webmail that has changed. > > > > I know a few non technical people who have contacted me to say "can you > > help me with xtra mail it isn't working" and frankly I don't know where > > to begin because I cannot see any easy to find reference on xtra's pages > > to what changes (if any) have been made to the pop and smtp services. > > All the mail stores have been transferred over to yahoo servers in oz (well, > probably in oz, dns is a bit hidden ), and mail is now recieved with yahoo's > own proprietary server. However, it this is not transparent to the end user, > then both xtra and yahoo want shooting! > > I expect that the problems being seen are the fight that you usually have > getting windoze to acknowledge any changes. > > ipconfig /flushdns > > may help. > > Steve > >
