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| Thread ID: 70768 | 2006-07-15 10:46:00 | Anyone else having Xtra email problems tonight? | Laura (43) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 471151 | 2006-07-15 10:46:00 | A friend in another part of Dunedin phoned this evening to ask why I'd not replied to his email. A check showed I hadn't received it. So I sent him one - just to make sure he had my address correct - and asked him to put a Reply on it. Since then, we established by phone at 8.30pm: He got mine promptly & replied. But I've still received nothing. He's using Outlook. I'm Outlook Express. He has broadband. I'm on DialUp. As it's the custom here to blame this ISP, I'm wondering... (But I am open to suggestions about faults in either of our comps, of course) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 471152 | 2006-07-15 11:16:00 | Try sending one to yourself, Laura. It will check it "both ways" | godfather (25) | ||
| 471153 | 2006-07-15 11:18:00 | Could it be caught in the junk emails, along with Xtra's own advertisements? :rolleyes: Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 471154 | 2006-07-15 11:18:00 | Let us know what happens - I'm with Xtra and have had a few weird problems too recently. | Greg (193) | ||
| 471155 | 2006-07-15 11:55:00 | Well, if I hadn't needed to log off at 10.15pm to make a phone call, I'd have seen Godfather's sensible suggestion earlier. But as it happens, I thought of that myself just as I rebooted. So I sent myself an email. And it worked fine. So I sent a lengthy one to my friend, breaking the bad news that his comp seems to be the culprit... and sympathising that he's had no indication his emails weren't getting through & how many has he sent that might need resending etc etc etc.. And now I see that was the simple test I should've thought of before I posted. Thanks Godfather. (with a slight tinge of pride that I actually did think of it myself... just slow). |
Laura (43) | ||
| 471156 | 2006-07-15 12:00:00 | Maybe he should have used the phone in the first place... Sorry thats no help. My mother-in-law sent one from Invercargill tonight and shes on Xtra dialup and we are on Xtra broadband. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 471157 | 2006-07-15 12:58:00 | Sorry, can't work out what point you're making. dolby digital. As I'm the one on DialUp, he can only get me on the phone when I'm not on the comp. I was, so he emailed - asking for a reply.. His phone call came a lot later when I'd logged off. When we established his email hadn't arrived - and neither did a following test - I kept alternating between comp & phone for problem analysis. That was a blasted nuisance, but I wasn't complaining about it.... comes with DialUp. What is more interesting is why his comp has given him no indication that emails he thinks he's sent haven't been received. Now there's a worry... |
Laura (43) | ||
| 471158 | 2006-07-15 21:28:00 | Isn't it lucky we don't use Xtra? (we use ihug, with no problems) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 471159 | 2006-07-16 00:05:00 | In the past I have received emails from Xtra users, both on dialup and ADSL, long after they were sent, sometimes a whole day later . My emails used to go through to them promptly enough, however . I use Eudora and the other people used various flavours of email clients including OE so I don't think that would be the cause . Blame Xtra . :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 471160 | 2006-07-16 02:57:00 | The new improved broadband services will be using Bose-Einstein condensates for the lines. The velocity of light in a BEC has been reduced to about 17 m/s (www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/hau.html). Perhaps Telecom are trying it out. :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
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