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Technical News & Discussion => IDNet Help => Topic started by: Wolfy on Jan 05, 2017, 12:14:28

Title: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: Wolfy on Jan 05, 2017, 12:14:28
Am I the only the person getting increasingly frustrated by the change to idnet webmail made last year that disconnects you every hour?  There's no warning - it just chops the link so if you are in mid-flow composing an email all you can do is copy paste what you've written and then log in again and start the email again. *Very* annoying. 

I haven't seen anybody else on here complain about it so maybe I'm the only person using it regularly.  I think I'm going to have to migrate my email elsewhere though because this is no longer usable.  Annoying as that will likely cost me a couple of hours for set up elsewhere. >:( 


Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: colirv on Jan 05, 2017, 14:44:15
I'm a great believer in having an email address that's not specific to an ISP, not least in case I want to change ISPs. FWIW I find Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com) very reliable, although I do use an email client.
Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: Wolfy on Jan 05, 2017, 15:15:26
Quote from: colirv on Jan 05, 2017, 14:44:15
I'm a great believer in having an email address that's not specific to an ISP, not least in case I want to change ISPs.

Quite agree.  Ive been bitten by that one in the past! I have a domain name for my emails but I've been routing them into IdNet thus far as I have found their free webmail client perfectly acceptable up until this recent change.  I also use Thunderbird to periodically download for archiving.  Fastmail looks good, thanks for the tip, 50 bucks a year though to use a domain.  I was considering zoho which is free up to 5GB storage.
Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: colirv on Jan 05, 2017, 16:34:39
Yea, I went with a fastmail.fm address, which is $30. I have my own domain, so perhaps I should have forked out the extra!
Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: nowster on Jan 05, 2017, 22:24:51
You could have had your own .me.uk domain for about a fiver a year, including webmail, from Gandi.net.
Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: Lance on Jan 06, 2017, 12:47:56
I use Zoho and other than the occasional blip it works really well. Their webmail is fine too.
Title: Re: Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail
Post by: Adrian on Jan 07, 2017, 12:56:44
Runbox is excellent too. Based in Norway with its much stronger privacy laws, and with excellent English language support. On the few occasions I have needed to contact support they have always responded quickly and have been very helpful.