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Thread ID: 138290	2014-11-05 01:44:00	Xtra Email down...AGAIN !	Blue Druid (4480)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1387651	2014-11-05 19:48:00	This situation is weird! Is it just that these are regional service failures? My Xtra email is 100% reliable, I use it/check it several times a day, every day, from 8:00am through to 10:00-10:30 at night, and I can't remember when it was last off-line other than when my computer is having a hissy fit and drops my connection, but a reboot always fixes that. What is stopping Spark/Xtra from keep up a consistent service nationwide? Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: It's 'weird', or consider yourself 'lucky'? It's strange that you don't have issues with Xtra mail! What email client are you using? My Outlook 2010 is popping up 'Authentication' requests every now and then for quite some time now, it's annoying. I'm supposed to ditch Xtra but somehow, without any real reason, still hanging on to it!	bk T (215)
1387652	2014-11-05 20:18:00	Maybe you're onto something bk T. Maybe it is just Outlook although I have used it in various incarnations without problems and it has only been for the past 6 or so months that the authentication requests interrupt whatever I'm working on. Not being a touch typist, I tend to look at the keyboard more than the screen and nothing is more frustrating than to discover that you have typed your last two paragraphs in Word into the 'password' box of the authentication request, just because Outlook happens to be open as well. For me, it almost always is. All the publicity about Google scanning email to determine what interests you have so they can send you even more advertising bothers me. I use ad-block plus in Firefox and it seems to do a good job but I just don't like the thought of the contents of my emails being passed on to advertisers just so that Google can get richer. I use DuckDuckGo for searches for the same reason. Call it paranoia but I like my communications to friends to remain private, not because they're dodgy but because I'm old-fashioned. The consensus seems to be that gmail and Outlook.com are the best alternatives to ISP-based email in terms of functionality so when my (valued) visitors have departed this afternoon, I shall attempt to set myself up on Outlook.com. For all I know, they might be as evil as Google but I haven't heard anything bad about them so that is where the choice will lie. If I'm happy in a month's time, you will see me burst into song on the forum and might even start attending Sunday school!	Blue Druid (4480)
1387653	2014-11-05 21:18:00	It's just a smear campaign from Microsoft. They say "Oh Google look in your emails to give you ads. We'd never do that!" Problem is, they do. How do you think they do Anti-spam? It's that same automated scanning of email that does anti-spam that gives you targetted advertising. At least with Google you may have something semi relevant. With Outlook.com it's just whoever is the highest bidder (Russian brides and dating / %@#$buddy sites). Now, Outlook.com does do anti-spam right? So they're "looking" at your emails right? Same as Google does with Gmail, right?	Chilling_Silence (9)
1387654	2014-11-05 21:26:00	My Xtra email is 100% reliable, I use it/check it several times a day, every day, from 8:00am through to 10:00-10:30 at night, Lucky man. You may be tempting fate to make such claims :p Seriously though, consider other email options now , before it does turn to custard .	1101 (13337)
1387655	2014-11-05 21:31:00	This is how it works MS Claims they dont read/scan your emails. Later on they somehow get caught doing just that...."oh that was a mistake" This is what MS & Google and others do, slurp personal info. They have both been caught out in the past then claimed it was a mistake & they never intended to slurp your info, despite paying for the software & hardware to do just that.	1101 (13337)
1387656	2014-11-05 21:44:00	I don't want to go anywhere near defending Xtra mail (because it's not a good service - and that's putting it nicely), but weren't there recently some changes to authentication on Xtra mail which necessitated changes to the settings in Outlook? Check the Spark website (www.spark.co.nz - check the Email Applications tab for your version of Outlook) to make sure all the ports are correct in Outlook settings and/or give the Help Desk a call... Disclaimer: Spark is my ISP, but I never use the Xtra email account. Been a happy Gmailer for 12+ years...	johcar (6283)
1387657	2014-11-05 22:05:00	I don't want to go anywhere near defending Xtra mail (because it's not a good service - and that's putting it nicely), but weren't there recently some changes to authentication on Xtra mail which necessitated changes to the settings in Outlook? Check the Spark website (www.spark.co.nz - check the Email Applications tab for your version of Outlook) to make sure all the ports are correct in Outlook settings and/or give the Help Desk a call... Disclaimer: Spark is my ISP, but I never use the Xtra email account. Been a happy Gmailer for 12+ years... Have checked and re-checked a dozen times or more, everything is set accordingly. Pretty sure is Xtra's (Yahoo) mail server's problem, because it was quite 'OK' at one time. Calling their helpdesk? They will be telling me exactly the same thing, going through those settings over and over again - it will not produce any positive results for sure. Did that many times already. Problem is, it does not happen every time, it works fine some times for 30 mins, some times 2~3 hours, but at times, the authentication request pops up every more frequently. My OL 2010 is set to check for mail every 10 minutes interval. It's time for a change will be the answer. I have my gmail and hotmail account set up years ago.	bk T (215)
1387658	2014-11-06 00:55:00	My current ISP is with Spark. I do have an Xtra email account but my main email account is my free Orcon account. I have changed my ISP several times over the years so I feel the need to have an email account that you keep no matter which ISP you are with. Mine was with Orcon as well but over the past 6 weeks I have been having great difficulty sending emails via Spark to mail.orcon.net.nz via port 587. from home I get and error message which I assume is from Orcon . It can take anything from 5 minutes to several hours of retries before it gets sent. Have sent a trouble request to Orcon but as I'm not one of their customers any longer they don't care.. When I try to sent to Orcon from work via Eudora I get6014 have moved it all to Outlook.com..	paulw (1826)
1387659	2014-11-06 01:22:00	its Spark / Yahoo servers. A old trick when it was playing up previously was dump the "secure" settings and go back to the old ones, 110 & 25, worked every time, BUT of course now Spark have dumped SMTP, that's not an option :(	wainuitech (129)
1387660	2014-11-06 02:05:00	its Spark / Yahoo servers. A old trick when it was playing up previously was dump the "secure" settings and go back to the old ones, 110 & 25, worked every time, BUT of course now Spark have dumped SMTP, that's not an option :( It's a nasty world out there in IT:devil	paulw (1826)
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