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Paul 20-10-2005 19:57

E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
At the moment I cannot access pop.ntlworld.com at all, and while I can connect to the smtp servers - they are responding extremely slowly once connected.

Edit: In fact smtp looks to have died completely now as well.

dilli-theclaw 20-10-2005 19:58

Re: E-mail problems
 
Yup - me too.

Scrubbs 20-10-2005 19:59

Re: E-mail problems
 
as per service page announcement?
me as well

Paul 20-10-2005 20:03

Re: E-mail problems
 
The service annoucment was dated this afternoon, this has happened in the last 20 minutes. :)

Foo Fighter 20-10-2005 20:03

Re: E-mail problems
 
www.ntlworld.com is gone too ffs just when i need to access my email typical :/

Paul 20-10-2005 20:09

Re: E-mail problems
 
I guess it's a problem at the Data Centre then.
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Anyway, they all appear to be back now. :)

Hom3r 20-10-2005 20:32

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
All ok for me and i'm in essex

iadom 20-10-2005 20:44

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Mail still down here.:(

andyl 20-10-2005 20:48

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Still down here. 3rd or 4th time in past 24 hours.
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And Service Status is showing this afternoon's problem as unresolved. Sure it was green earlier.

Wicked_and_Crazy 20-10-2005 21:03

Re: E-mail problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M
The service annoucment was dated this afternoon, this has happened in the last 20 minutes. :)

same here, was ok 45 mins ago
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M
Anyway, they all appear to be back now. :)

Cant send mail still

bucketbakereturn 20-10-2005 21:07

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
nothin nada for at least a couple of hours now here in Belfast for me and my email.

Maggy 20-10-2005 21:15

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Well for me its the RETURN of the problem because it was like that yesterday as well. :rolleyes:

nffc 20-10-2005 21:29

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I can telnet into both :erm:

bucketbakereturn 20-10-2005 21:38

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
.........and we're back, though haven't tried the web site yet.

MovedGoalPosts 20-10-2005 21:40

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Undoubtedly problematic. Just taken half an hour for a small email to finally go.

xathras 20-10-2005 22:40

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
nope mine still not working, typical guess its time to read a book

Wicked_and_Crazy 20-10-2005 22:45

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
mine started working and has since stopped again

Angua 20-10-2005 22:48

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Mines Ok (for website only) but a tad slow. E-mail forget it. :(

Traffico3 20-10-2005 22:52

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Glad to learn it's not just my PC.

Probably some clever little **** @ ntl trying out a new idea.

xathras 20-10-2005 22:55

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
i've got a strange one for you, i can access the webmail via firefox but not internet explorer.

as for mozilla email as well.

Minbu 20-10-2005 23:19

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
For the last six months my email is down every few days. Have stopped using the account now. Not worth the trouble.

fireman328 20-10-2005 23:24

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
No problems with mine, just d/l 2 meg file no problems.

MovedGoalPosts 20-10-2005 23:46

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Everything is down now, can't collect or send :(

peaksoft 21-10-2005 07:29

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I haven't been able to send/receive mail/see ntlworld.com for 11 hours.

xathras 21-10-2005 08:46

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
totally down. unacceptable. does the data centre not have a SLA, because if did it should be paying out by now.

andyl 21-10-2005 08:49

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
This is getting beyond a joke. Anyone at NTL have an estimated fix time?
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Quote:

Originally Posted by xathras
totally down. unacceptable. does the data centre not have a SLA, because if did it should be paying out by now.

Email is a benefit not an integral part of the service apparently, so don't hold your breath.

Womble 21-10-2005 08:49

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Mines screwed too, and the homepage is taking an age to load (correction, it still hasn't loaded!)

peaksoft 21-10-2005 09:01

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Is there something wider happening? I've just got into work, where I'm not connecting through NTL, and I find that a lot of sites aren't responding.

atlantis 21-10-2005 09:37

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Still down here today too, no access to ntlworld, or email:(

fatnose12 21-10-2005 09:45

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Email down yesterday morning, up yesterday evening, and guess what, down this morning. Uup and down more often than a prozzies draws.
You know I am going to have to phone people and actually talk instead of type.........

xathras 21-10-2005 10:08

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
for those that don't know the web address for service status away from ntlworld.com website here it is.

http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/

You will notice the fault reported for broadband customers for email as well as NTLWORLD.COM, there also seems to be some ongoing maintenance.

Machineage 21-10-2005 10:23

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Completely beyond a joke now.... :confused:

No email for two days - and our friends overseas are TOTALLY useless. Anyone any idea how to reach TS in the UK????

fatnose12 21-10-2005 10:54

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
The last time I had cause to call customer service, I politly asked to be put through to someone in England who understood what they were talking about, and hey presto I got through to someone in England, who knew nothing of what he was talking about, only goes to show that NTL employ technical incompetents on 2 continents.

And still no Email........

RogerL 21-10-2005 10:58

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I'm connecting to the email servers okay now - but there was no email to download which is quite remarkable as I normally get best part of 100 emails a day on my NTL addresses and I haven't been able to access them since Wednesday !

andyl 21-10-2005 11:06

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
It came up, it went down.

Not a lot of point moaning about TS though is there? What can they do given this would appear to be a national fault and not to do with individual accounts? :confused: I've not bother calling.

savalas 21-10-2005 11:08

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Seems to be ok now.. (southampton area here)

xathras 21-10-2005 19:52

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by andyl
This is getting beyond a joke. Anyone at NTL have an estimated fix time?
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Email is a benefit not an integral part of the service apparently, so don't hold your breath.


actually you will find email is part of the service since this is including in the T&C's.

NormCash 21-10-2005 19:55

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
As of about 7:45pm, it seems to be down again. Well, it is here in Glasgow anyway. :rolleyes:
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Ah...a development.

It seems that outgoing email is getting through, but incoming isn't.

Angua 21-10-2005 20:38

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
All mine are getting through if somewhat slowly and with claims of "unable to connect to ntlworld.com" by my e-mail? :shrug: But no NTL Home page!

nffc 21-10-2005 21:20

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I can send no probs through smtp.ntlworld.com, don't have an ntl email to POP3 test though.

homealone 21-10-2005 21:23

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
working here atm - in and out, but it was broken earlier :)

Chris W 21-10-2005 21:43

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
glad to see ntl have employed someone with good typing skills to keep the server status page upto date...

paul11974 21-10-2005 21:46

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
cant get ntlworld.com and i keep getting the same emails over and over again

MovedGoalPosts 21-10-2005 21:48

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris W
glad to see ntl have employed someone with good typing skills to keep the server status page upto date...

How can you see a server status page when the server is dead :confused:

Chris W 21-10-2005 21:49

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob C
How can you see a server status page when the server is dead :confused:

see post number 31 ;)

Or indeed... the link at the bottom of our forum :p:

MovedGoalPosts 21-10-2005 21:51

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris W
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob C
How can you see a server status page when the server is dead :confused:

see post number 31 ;)

Or indeed... the link at the bottom of our forum :p:

:doh: :dunce:

\gets coat

therus 21-10-2005 23:01

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
It's being worked on - there's a sev.1 case open with Cisco. :Yikes:

The problem is coming and going in waves - so sometimes it will seem fine, others it'll be.... problematic.

The ntlworld homepage problem is linked to this also.

homealone 21-10-2005 23:26

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by therus
It's being worked on - there's a sev.1 case open with Cisco. :Yikes:

The problem is coming and going in waves - so sometimes it will seem fine, others it'll be.... problematic.

The ntlworld homepage problem is linked to this also.

:welcome:

- and thanks :)

XFS03 22-10-2005 00:42

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
According to the service status page, accessing ntlworld.com was resolved over 12 hours ago!

Whatever they thought they had done to resolve the problem obviously didn't work.

At this moment in time, the only problem, according to the service status page, is with email, even though I still can't get on to ntlworld.com.

andyl 22-10-2005 09:31

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by XFS03
According to the service status page, accessing ntlworld.com was resolved over 12 hours ago!

Whatever they thought they had done to resolve the problem obviously didn't work.

At this moment in time, the only problem, according to the service status page, is with email, even though I still can't get on to ntlworld.com.

Showing unresolved now.

Therus wot does that Cisco comment mean?!

ee61re 22-10-2005 09:46

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
pop mail is still down for me. Been intermittent since Thursday.

Webmail is very very slow to login, but does eventually work.

andyl 22-10-2005 09:57

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ee61re
pop mail is still down for me. Been intermittent since Thursday.

Webmail is very very slow to login, but does eventually work.

Ditto. This is ridiculous. Is NTL: Business affected I wonder - they have a service level agreement paying out, I believe, if service is disrupted for more than six hours. For us Home users for whom email is not allegedly integral to the service though..... :(

therus 22-10-2005 12:08

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
it looks like we have a potential "feature" in the CSS.

bucketbakereturn 22-10-2005 12:38

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
ropey here this mornin but all good now.

andyl 22-10-2005 13:05

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by therus
it looks like we have a potential "feature" in the CSS.

Therus, please, in English! ;) As a repreesentative of Jep Public what I'd liketo know is, wil NTL bae able to resolve this quickly and permanently?

andyl 22-10-2005 15:13

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Sorry about the typos above!!Any word anybody?
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Why the youknowhat is Service Status showing this problem is resolved?!!!

VC10 22-10-2005 15:16

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
What's happening?

I'm in Detroit and had great difficulty getting my e-mails or even accessing the service status page to try and find out what is going on for the last few days.

Can you ask for compensation in a prolonged situation?

Johnty 22-10-2005 15:21

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
This is getting beyond a joke, it's off again. It's been on off all the week ever since they started their latest round of "System load balancing".

andyl 22-10-2005 15:27

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I asked a former NTL director if there was any link between everything going tits up and network upgrades. He sniggered and agreed. This was a man who could not wait to get the hell out of NTL and was all but begging me to play down his shameful past when publicising his appointment elsewhere!!
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I see that Service Status has put this current issue as a new problem. Nice try NTL but WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID. This is the same sodding problem that's been plaguing us for days and the couple of hours you suggest it was working problem - guess what, wrong! It was working intermittently which is not the same.

Johnty 22-10-2005 15:34

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I wonder will we get a refund when it's all over?

Doofy 22-10-2005 15:53

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
absolutely ridiculous no email again not even webmail. When it was apparently fixed last time all of my emails had disappeared, i know they should have been there. I had to ring around people to check they had been sent, but i did not receive them god alone knows where they are now. :mad: :mad:

Johnty 22-10-2005 15:56

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
...and on again!

Doofy 22-10-2005 16:14

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnty
...and on again!

Same here anyones guess as to how long though. EDIT Mines Gone again :erm:

VC10 22-10-2005 16:29

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I wonder if they have tried re-booting the server?;)

bucketbakereturn 22-10-2005 16:33

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
@ Johnty - gone again in Belfast

Halcyon 22-10-2005 16:55

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
E-mail still not working great in Leicester.

xathras 22-10-2005 17:07

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Doofy
Same here anyones guess as to how long though. EDIT Mines Gone again :erm:

and would you like to add.

"and ariston"

Maggy 22-10-2005 17:34

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Intermittant is soooo right.Up and down faster than a tart's drawers.

They are currently up around her nether regions. ;)

sheridan 22-10-2005 17:43

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
hopeless , and on a weekend when i use email most .:mad:

thank goodness i have gmail as well :)

budwieser 22-10-2005 18:24

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
18.23 and still no E-Mail here in the CB1 area!

I`ve got bids on items in Ebay that i need to see!!!!!!:mad:
Get it sorted NTL.!:td: :td: :td: :mad: :mad:

snowey 22-10-2005 18:51

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Down in the Teesside area too, please get it sorted ASAP..

quadplay 22-10-2005 20:01

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by budwieser
I`ve got bids on items in Ebay that i need to see!!!!!!:mad:

Erm... So login to My eBay, perhaps?

Paul 22-10-2005 22:03

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by VC10
I wonder if they have tried re-booting the server?;)

The fact they have a P1 logged with Cisco would suggest it's a router problem, not server. :)

therus 22-10-2005 23:01

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M
The fact they have a P1 logged with Cisco would suggest it's a router problem, not server. :)

Bingo

Angua 22-10-2005 23:15

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Wierd thing is I have always been able to connect to CF but the NTL homepage has been a rare sighting. Whereas although I get my e-mails eventually a pop up says "unable to connect to Pop.ntlworld.com" or similar. :shrug:

abailey152 23-10-2005 00:45

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Gave up with NTL for my email inbox some time ago. However, this problem has also killed my email sending, so I've now configured IIS to send SMTP from my machine. This appears to be working okay.

So it's a :redcard: to NTL email servers completely now!

VC10 23-10-2005 01:54

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
E-mail has been working from Detroit now for about 90 mins.

ee61re 23-10-2005 10:14

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
seems fine here in Portsmouth, for the time being.....

westy 23-10-2005 10:21

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
well im connecting to the mail server now.. but everyone of my accoounts is saying ERR username/password incorrect. :mad:

I can send outgoing mail but anything i send to one of my NTL accounts from hotmail bounces back saying user doesnt exist!!

Can't logon to webmail either or the account management thing on ntlworld, I hope they haven't deleted all my accounts.

theman 23-10-2005 13:03

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
i have ahd trouble all weekend and now it is still not working i am in the notts area

jburton 23-10-2005 13:15

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Our email wasn't working from Friday morning until yesterday (Saturday) evening (about 10pm?) It was still working this morning but stopped working again an hour or so...

We're in Colchester, Essex.



Jon

ee61re 23-10-2005 15:01

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
its timing out on pop3, AGAIN.

VC10 23-10-2005 15:42

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
It's down again!!!!! When is this going to end?

Paul 23-10-2005 15:56

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Presumably when Cisco respond with a fix.

ikthius 23-10-2005 16:19

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
my email is down too, been bad all day

ik

ultimate 23-10-2005 16:24

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Looks like the Sinclaire Spectrum brigade is out again, welcome to the bad old days !!!!!!!!

therus 23-10-2005 16:49

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M
Presumably when Cisco respond with a fix.

Bingo again! - Blimey, are you psychic?

The last i heard was that the problem was with the Cisco product development team and ntl is pushing very hard on Cisco's preverbials for a fix.

Sunday evening is one of the peak load times for the mail platform, so things will probably run quite slowly until the load eases with the current problem affecting things.

Sorry i can't help much more - my mail is on there too, and i know just how frustrating it is!

Johnty 23-10-2005 16:51

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I reckon they cannot handle all the traffic so they are switching on and off different areas , you just have to work out when yours is on. Cisco? I thought he was spaced out on DS9 in the alpha quadrant.

monkey2468 23-10-2005 17:00

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Both down here also:(

Maggy 23-10-2005 17:10

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Well I'm redirecting mail notification as and where I can remember.

VC10 23-10-2005 17:10

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I suppose it is catch 22. The system not working so everything is backing up which puts more load on the system when it is working, which brings it down again.

Maggy 23-10-2005 17:24

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
I can get to my webmail but cannot actually do anything once there. :rolleyes:

therus 23-10-2005 17:37

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnty
I reckon they cannot handle all the traffic so they are switching on and off different areas , you just have to work out when yours is on. Cisco? I thought he was spaced out on DS9 in the alpha quadrant.

Nope, there's no area switching - it's all or nothing.

mickm 23-10-2005 18:45

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Mine's been intermittant for around 3 days now... Cut my phone off by all means but I really can't do without my email.

Pain in the ar5e...!!!!!!!!!!!!

flangeway 23-10-2005 18:49

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
My ntl e-mail works occasionally and sporadically over the last 3 days. Sometimes it's fine, and at others, their servers just time out. I suspect accesses are being, err, 'rationed'.

westy 23-10-2005 18:53

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
well mines back connecting to mail server again... still rejecting my username and passwords for all my accounts though. Why have i got the feeling they've deleted my accounts?

Paul 23-10-2005 19:55

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by therus
Bingo again! - Blimey, are you psychic?

Yes :D

or maybe I've just spent too long supporting networks .... ;)

monkey2468 23-10-2005 20:30

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Yep, its working again.

westy 23-10-2005 21:17

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
Am I to assume that I have a sepearate problem, since everyone of my NTL email accounts is saying ERR- username/password incorrect? or do you think its related to the ongoing problems? No one else has mentioned this error, The POP3 server is up for me just not accepting my login & password.

atlantis 23-10-2005 21:19

Re: E-mail and ntlworld.com problems
 
So far, so good, working OK here for last 3 hours (hope I havn't jinxed it):)


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