IDNetters Forums

Technical News & Discussion => IDNet Help => Topic started by: mrapoc on Jul 18, 2010, 11:49:15

Title: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: mrapoc on Jul 18, 2010, 11:49:15
All last night (from 7 till i gave up at 12) my connection was down, tried rebooting etc. and still no connection.

Just wondering why..

and also mail server seems to be not accepting any outgoing passwords today

did/has something gone down idnets end?

Was on the ludlow exchange
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Glenn on Jul 18, 2010, 11:59:48
The SMTP servers are now only accepting IDNet mail, if you are trying to send email from other providers, then you will need to use another smtp service.
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Glenn on Jul 18, 2010, 12:02:03
Here you go Sam http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php?id=20188

Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: mrapoc on Jul 18, 2010, 12:16:51
ahh thanks :)

yeh it is a @idnet.com address, however i heard it doesnt need authentication? how come ever since i started using it it asks for a password and iv always given it?
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Glenn on Jul 18, 2010, 12:37:52
Changes were made following IDNet's blacklisting on some spam lists, so it may have been due to that.
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Den on Jul 18, 2010, 16:46:37
 use a domain name with .co.uk and when I just sent a test email to myself it worked straight away, am I missing something ?  :dunno:
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Rik on Jul 18, 2010, 16:55:13
I don't think so, Den, I'm not up to speed yet, but I think the authenticated SMTP service has been withdrawn due to abuse.
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Den on Jul 18, 2010, 20:16:21
so this will not affect anyone using a domain name.co.uk and routing it to idnet.com  :eyebrow:
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Steve on Jul 18, 2010, 20:38:30
It not effecting all email domains. I can use smtp.idnet.com for my own domain mail hosted elsewhere. I think it depends who its 'to' and the configuration, the SPF record and rules of the 'from' domain. In other words it works for some and not all.
Title: Re: Why was connection down and other problems?
Post by: Technical Ben on Jul 19, 2010, 08:22:02
Sorry for the double post. But I also was effected by the outages of the connection over the weekend. It was too convenient to have happened at 7 every day for it to be an accidental or coincidental fault. More likely a total collapse due to overuse or some works/maintenance going wrong.