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  • Dave A
    Site Caretaker

    • May 2006
    • 22803

    #1

    If you are using a vodamail account

    If you are using a vodamail account for your member profile on TFSA, I have a suggestion to make sure your email messages get through to you - get an email address at another service providor (such as gmail).

    I'm getting quite a few bounces on vodamail accounts from active members who have not had problems previously. Here's the crux of the error message:
    Recipient address rejected: User
    unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)
    Clearly vodamail is experiencing technical problems.

    What particularly concerns me is looking at the accounts involved, I see quite a few involve your company's name. It doesn't take much of a leap to think you might be relying on this email service for business - and by the looks of things, your mail might not be arriving as reliably as one might hope.
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  • Dave A
    Site Caretaker

    • May 2006
    • 22803

    #2
    Update - I've decided to try to ride the bounces for another day to see what happens. There is a possibility vodamail has sorted out their problem.
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    • Martinco
      Gold Member

      • Oct 2008
      • 927

      #3
      Originally posted by Dave A
      get an email address at another service providor (such as gmail).
      A very good idea in any case !

      Set up the account so that it looks at your normal email account/s and forward all these to Gmail.
      Can save you a lot of trouble later and can be accessed from anywhere without you having to do an account setup on a distant PC.
      Martin Coetzee
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      • garthu
        Gold Member

        • Dec 2008
        • 595

        #4
        I don't know this is limited to Vodamail. In the last week or so i have had 3 people tell me they sent emails but won't go thru on our own domain.

        I have had emails bounce to another private domain.. ferrari.co.za (no not buying.... damn... but client)

        Probably coincidence but have never had it before.
        Garth

        Electric fence Installation : www.midrand-electronics.co.za
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        • Dave A
          Site Caretaker

          • May 2006
          • 22803

          #5
          Webmail having problems too?

          On the subject of email service problems, I couldn't help but notice this story:
          Webmail account holders have been warned. Someone may have access to your confidential emails and Webmail doesn't seem to know how to correct the problem.

          "Since yesterday I have been receiving other users' private emails [inbox and sent] items. I have received over a 500 mails from different users," Glacier Bambisa told the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday.

          "I have contacted Webmail to see if they are aware of the privacy concerns of other users. They say they have had a few similar incidents but they do not know how to resolve it," Bambisa told the M&G.
          full story from M&G here
          The secuity consequences are mind-boggling

          EDIT: and checking this morning's logs, it seems Vodamail has sorted out their problems.
          Last edited by Dave A; 25-Nov-10, 08:50 AM.
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          • garthu
            Gold Member

            • Dec 2008
            • 595

            #6
            but they do not know how to resolve it
            Now THATS what you DON'T want to hear!
            Garth

            Electric fence Installation : www.midrand-electronics.co.za
            Free Classified Adds : www.bgone.co.za

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