Life without Email
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Could you live with out email? Receiving emails, I mean. Well I'm in the happy state of knowing that there are emails destined for me but I cannot read them. My fault really - should have done a little more research. Still I appear to be still alive so it cann't be too bad! What happened was.... For extremely good reasons (I thought) I have moved my web hosting to a new supplier. This has involved moving the hosting of two domains - one a .co.uk domain, the other a .com. The web sites moved beautifully - probably within a few hours both the .co.uk and .com web sites could be accessed from web browsers. Ah - but email - a different story. The email addresses using the .co.uk domain started working within a few hours, but the .com addresses, which are of course my main email addresses will not work "until the transfer process is completed in 7-10 days". Six days in and no emails! A little googling reveals that the .co.uk domain transfer is managed by a paper process and the .com transfer by an electronic one. The paper process produced results in hours; the electronic process is taking over a week! Even the banks can clear a cheque in less than a week! Now I am just a little fellow, and as you can guess, my business is affected but not ruined by the absence of incoming emails from my main address. I've found ways round it. But suppose I was a big company, would it still take 7-10 days to make the transfer? If I was of a suspicious mind, I might think that this sort of delay is built into the system to prevent people moving their domains from one supplier to another - not that there was a good technical reason for taking so long. Still life without emails is not too bad. Problems may arise, of course, when they start working (if they start working) again!
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Could you live with out email? Receiving emails, I mean. Well I'm in the happy state of knowing that there are emails destined for me but I cannot read them. My fault really - should have done a little more research. Still I appear to be still alive so it cann't be too bad! What happened was.... For extremely good reasons (I thought) I have moved my web hosting to a new supplier. This has involved moving the hosting of two domains - one a .co.uk domain, the other a .com. The web sites moved beautifully - probably within a few hours both the .co.uk and .com web sites could be accessed from web browsers. Ah - but email - a different story. The email addresses using the .co.uk domain started working within a few hours, but the .com addresses, which are of course my main email addresses will not work "until the transfer process is completed in 7-10 days". Six days in and no emails! A little googling reveals that the .co.uk domain transfer is managed by a paper process and the .com transfer by an electronic one. The paper process produced results in hours; the electronic process is taking over a week! Even the banks can clear a cheque in less than a week! Now I am just a little fellow, and as you can guess, my business is affected but not ruined by the absence of incoming emails from my main address. I've found ways round it. But suppose I was a big company, would it still take 7-10 days to make the transfer? If I was of a suspicious mind, I might think that this sort of delay is built into the system to prevent people moving their domains from one supplier to another - not that there was a good technical reason for taking so long. Still life without emails is not too bad. Problems may arise, of course, when they start working (if they start working) again!
hayrob wrote:
The paper process produced results in hours; the electronic process is taking over a week!
Many times we encounter such a paradox. The traditional nationalized banks here have more paper records but they do a meticulous job with a greater customer-friendly attitude. But the so-called private booty banks like ICICI, HDFC and those craps boast of e-Age banking but take more than ten days to process a simple customer request like PIN reset for example. And to pepper up their attitude, the private banks show-off with stupid call center staff who suffer from pathetic amnesia adored by crazily configured systems with more downtime than being a service to the customers.
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Could you live with out email? Receiving emails, I mean. Well I'm in the happy state of knowing that there are emails destined for me but I cannot read them. My fault really - should have done a little more research. Still I appear to be still alive so it cann't be too bad! What happened was.... For extremely good reasons (I thought) I have moved my web hosting to a new supplier. This has involved moving the hosting of two domains - one a .co.uk domain, the other a .com. The web sites moved beautifully - probably within a few hours both the .co.uk and .com web sites could be accessed from web browsers. Ah - but email - a different story. The email addresses using the .co.uk domain started working within a few hours, but the .com addresses, which are of course my main email addresses will not work "until the transfer process is completed in 7-10 days". Six days in and no emails! A little googling reveals that the .co.uk domain transfer is managed by a paper process and the .com transfer by an electronic one. The paper process produced results in hours; the electronic process is taking over a week! Even the banks can clear a cheque in less than a week! Now I am just a little fellow, and as you can guess, my business is affected but not ruined by the absence of incoming emails from my main address. I've found ways round it. But suppose I was a big company, would it still take 7-10 days to make the transfer? If I was of a suspicious mind, I might think that this sort of delay is built into the system to prevent people moving their domains from one supplier to another - not that there was a good technical reason for taking so long. Still life without emails is not too bad. Problems may arise, of course, when they start working (if they start working) again!
That's entirely excessive, a couple of days at absolute most for the dns update to replicate world wide, but a mail account should be up and running in minutes. When you do a switch like that you need direct access to both servers until the changeover is complete. I.E. some way of still accessing your old mail when the dns change takes effect and your new mail server before the dns change takes effect. Or setup forwarding to a temporary online email account like gmail before you start the change so that stragglers will not get lost. 10 days though is ridiculous and extremely suspect. That kind of jackanapery from ISP's is exactly why we turned to running our own self managed server for our business websites and email. Best decision we ever made and actually cheaper than using a hosted isp and less down time than we ever had even with big name isp's.
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Could you live with out email? Receiving emails, I mean. Well I'm in the happy state of knowing that there are emails destined for me but I cannot read them. My fault really - should have done a little more research. Still I appear to be still alive so it cann't be too bad! What happened was.... For extremely good reasons (I thought) I have moved my web hosting to a new supplier. This has involved moving the hosting of two domains - one a .co.uk domain, the other a .com. The web sites moved beautifully - probably within a few hours both the .co.uk and .com web sites could be accessed from web browsers. Ah - but email - a different story. The email addresses using the .co.uk domain started working within a few hours, but the .com addresses, which are of course my main email addresses will not work "until the transfer process is completed in 7-10 days". Six days in and no emails! A little googling reveals that the .co.uk domain transfer is managed by a paper process and the .com transfer by an electronic one. The paper process produced results in hours; the electronic process is taking over a week! Even the banks can clear a cheque in less than a week! Now I am just a little fellow, and as you can guess, my business is affected but not ruined by the absence of incoming emails from my main address. I've found ways round it. But suppose I was a big company, would it still take 7-10 days to make the transfer? If I was of a suspicious mind, I might think that this sort of delay is built into the system to prevent people moving their domains from one supplier to another - not that there was a good technical reason for taking so long. Still life without emails is not too bad. Problems may arise, of course, when they start working (if they start working) again!
hayrob wrote:
Could you live with out email?
Hell yeah! I welcome every outage of BlackBerry service with a keg of beer and an all-night bender!
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hayrob wrote:
Could you live with out email?
Hell yeah! I welcome every outage of BlackBerry service with a keg of beer and an all-night bender!
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2006, 2007I think I'll survive. with my BlackBerry at hand...i'll be okay.
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I think I'll survive. with my BlackBerry at hand...i'll be okay.
Why are you replying to a 3 and a half year old post? Talk about being late to the party... I posted this referring to the fact that people which are tied to their Support roles can't be located if service is out.
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