IOL Email - Down, Cancelled??

JohnBoy · 07-03-2013 12:32pm

I just realised I havent recieved anything in my esatclear inbox for days.

Stupidly I've continued using it all these years, i'd feckin hope that if they were turning it off they'd give notificiations. It's not that hard to check if anyone was using it.

nelly17 · 08-03-2013 1:53am

Probably best to get diverts set up, you can use https://mailman.iol.ie/

Myrddin · 08-03-2013 2:00pm

JohnBoy wrote: »

I just realised I havent recieved anything in my esatclear inbox for days.

Stupidly I've continued using it all these years, i'd feckin hope that if they were turning it off they'd give notificiations. It's not that hard to check if anyone was using it.

I thought I was the lone user of esatclear these days

Since I noticed this thread a few days ago, I've migrated over to gmail. It really was high time I got with the times, & if esatclear was dropped suddenly it'd have been a massive headache for me

Torqay · 02-04-2013 6:27pm

Since three days or so I'm getting about 80-100 spam mails per day through IOL (usually I only get maybe 10 in a week, tops), though I hardly ever use this account and very few people have the address. I know of a friend who's experiencing a similar wave of spam though he's using IOL regularly.

Anyone else?

Enright · 02-04-2013 7:25pm

Same here, your not on your own, as i dont pay for my IOL account can i contact them and ask for a solution at there end?

Masala · 02-04-2013 7:40pm

Same here as well... mainly Weigh Loss emails from Famous People !!!!

Have started changing my 'account details' on my favourite subscriptions over to my Gmail account. Probably take the guts of a year .. but hope have all sorted by next renewal

Lockster · 02-04-2013 8:15pm

Yeah I'm getting loads of spam mainly about weight loss as well

Torqay · 02-04-2013 11:02pm

Lockster wrote: »

Yeah I'm getting loads of spam mainly about weight loss as well

Yep... just in the last hour or two:

Torqay · 02-04-2013 11:05pm

Enright wrote: »

Same here, your not on your own, as i dont pay for my IOL account can i contact them and ask for a solution at there end?

IOL, although owned and still kept "alive" by BT is no longer supported. No tech support or customer care.

Enright · 02-04-2013 11:14pm

Im using outlook which filters the email, i would prefer to block it at the server

kathleen37 · 27-04-2013 2:59pm

Hi - I've used iolfree email for years, and it's connect to my ebay/paypal accounts among others. I had similar problems as those mentioned last month (never had any problems previously) but since yesterday, it seems the account isn't receiving emails. Still able to log into the account via web, and still able to send, but nothing being sent to it is going through .

Has anyone any ideas? I've deleted and recreated pop accounts from yahoo/gmail, but the issue is direct (and can't setup pop as the verification email from yahoo or gmail never reaches the iolfree inbox!)

As ever, many thanks for you help

Lockster · 06-12-2013 10:52am

Sorry to bring up this old thread again, but is anyone else having problems logging into iol.ie mail this morning?

Zauka · 06-12-2013 10:55am

Lockster,

unfortunately, we do not use iol.ie

95 percent of population use gmail, outlook, or yahoo mail.

And by the way, they are the best.

Regards,
Zauka

Firblog · 06-12-2013 11:14am

Aye, know people who are experiencing problems with iol mail this morning too.

Lockster · 06-12-2013 11:21am

Thanks. It's not that important to me as I've moved anything major away, but still good to know it's not only me with the problem.

Zauka · 06-12-2013 11:33am

Lockster wrote: »

Thanks. It's not that important to me as I've moved anything major away, but still good to know it's not only me with the problem.

Good decision

Paulw · 06-12-2013 12:11pm

I still have the vast majority of emails going via iol. It's my main email account, and I haven't had a problem at all with it.

ED E · 06-12-2013 12:22pm

Indigo(Run by eircom now) is having similar issues. Time to get out now before it all goes down IMO.

Lockster · 06-12-2013 12:45pm

It seems to have just been an issue with our office internet connection and the security settings as it was just not connecting over wifi but fine on 3G. All resolved now.

RangeR · 06-12-2013 12:48pm

Lockster wrote: »

It seems to have just been an issue with our office internet connection and the security settings as it was just not connecting over wifi but fine on 3G. All resolved now.

Still... Best to migrate to something widely supported and less likely to fail.

gmail, outlook, live, yahoo

tom_in_cork · 06-12-2013 1:18pm

I had problems on iol this morning also
Seems resolved now

SpaceTime · 06-12-2013 1:21pm

This was always the big drawback with ISP-provided email accounts. When you moved ISP or the ISP vanished, your email account's future became very uncertain.

Even Apple screwed me over a few times with @mac.com and @me.com and then at @icloud.com I wouldn't bother with their email service ever again after that mess of domain changes for no logical reason. I'd an old @mac.com account which I got free for years and then they tried to charge me and I just jumped ship for Gmail and haven't looked back.

In the meantime, Gmail's pretty much absorbed the market along with all of our most intimate data!

Are there any good alternatives to Gmail / Google Apps. Preferably something that does good IMAP?

RangeR · 06-12-2013 1:39pm

SpaceTime wrote: »

This was always the big drawback with ISP-provided email accounts. When you moved ISP or the ISP vanished, your email account's future became very uncertain.

Even Apple screwed me over a few times with @mac.com and @me.com and then at @icloud.com I wouldn't bother with their email service ever again after that mess of domain changes for no logical reason. I'd an old @mac.com account which I got free for years and then they tried to charge me and I just jumped ship for Gmail and haven't looked back.

In the meantime, Gmail's pretty much absorbed the market along with all of our most intimate data!

Are there any good alternatives to Gmail / Google Apps. Preferably something that does good IMAP?

Do your own, hosted, for for about €40 per year ex domain costs.

Zauka · 06-12-2013 1:50pm

tom_in_cork wrote: »

I had problems on iol this morning also
Seems resolved now

I believe the safest and most advance free email provider is gmail.

There is no space/place on this planet for a small players. Eircom, comcast etc one day will die as well.

yoyo · 06-12-2013 2:57pm

Zauka wrote: »

I believe the safest and most advance free email provider is gmail.

There is no space/place on this planet for a small players. Eircom, comcast etc one day will die as well.

Outlook.com is also another good option. Microsoft changed from Hotmail to Outlook and I don't see that changing in a while, even still hotmail addresses will still work fine. You can get an @outlook.ie address free which is nice.
For business use you should definitely invest in a domain and host your own email though. That way you'll have ownership of the domain and not need to worry about this kind of messing about in the future.

Nick

SpaceTime · 06-12-2013 4:06pm

Only issue with Gmail is that your email's being trawled for ad words all the time.

While email's never really that secure, I do like at least some vague notion of privacy

MrAbc · 07-12-2013 1:31am

IIRC another issue with remaining with iol.ie or iolfree.ie, etc, is that changing your password now involves phoning them up and getting them to do it. Not very handy.

BarryM · 14-12-2013 3:32pm

Paulw wrote: »

I still have the vast majority of emails going via iol. It's my main email account, and I haven't had a problem at all with it.

I have been using iol for (it seems like) ever. I have never had any problems, until now.

I have been in Chile recently so I thought it was a problem there, but since |I came back I have been having issues with mails not remaining on the server. I have a htc phone and the settings don't delete the messages on the server. It had been working just fine for the phone, an ASUS tablet and a PC, all three saw the mails, until, I was in Chile....since then....

What is happening is that all the messages (from two different accounts, including IOL) arrive in the htc, but they don't all appear in either the ASUS or the PC. Cannot seem to fathom out what is the basis on which they do appear on the ASUS/PC but on the ASUS if I do another scan all the original ones which were there disappear and new ones arrive. On the PC, if I don't scan the ASUS, some of the ones from phone appear, others don't....

Confusing or what?? Any ideas??

tom_in_cork · 15-07-2014 1:21pm

It's your settings. You can choose to leave on server, or delete when downloaded.
I have set my mobile and tablet so they don't delete and my PC deletes from server when downloaded
Is iol.ie down for anyone today?

Enright · 15-07-2014 1:49pm

Yes IOL down, asking me to retry password (using outlook), tried the site, i could login but couldn't send receive emails

Lockster · 15-07-2014 2:02pm

Down for me as well saying user name and password is incorrect

maxpower · 15-07-2014 3:40pm

im getting the following message when i try login via http://webmail.iol.ie/

An error has occurred

W10: Cannot login to host (gpo.iol.ie:110)
W11: User or Password incorrect for port (-ERR Authentication failed.)
W13: POP open failed
W14: Login failed, try again
W15: Logging out user {*****@gpo.iol.ie} )
W20: User login error

ellieh1 · 15-07-2014 3:52pm

Getting the same error here, any ideas on how to fix it or who to contact?

maxpower · 15-07-2014 4:34pm

ellieh1 wrote: »

Getting the same error here, any ideas on how to fix it or who to contact?

no idea.

hopefully will be back tomorrow or the day after.

Lockster · 15-07-2014 4:37pm

Seems to be back now as I just got an email on my phone

Ruu · 15-07-2014 4:38pm

I am able to login via the webmail.

maxpower · 15-07-2014 4:43pm

Lockster wrote: »

Seems to be back now as I just got an email on my phone

strange still down for me.

i tried doing a password reminder and got the following.

Error!

We seem to be experiencing some Technical Difficulties.
The System Administrators have been automatically notified of this problem and will resolve it as soon as possible.

sweetafton · 15-07-2014 4:45pm

It's back up for me too. Maybe try again?

maxpower · 15-07-2014 5:05pm

yea, back for me now.

Strasser · 15-07-2014 5:17pm

Yes back up but it looks like any mails sent to us during the down time are lost, I know some sent to me have not come

Strasser · 15-07-2014 5:50pm

Actually its not working, it appears to check for mail properly but no new messages are coming in,just sent myself a test message and not working.

JohnC. · 15-07-2014 5:54pm

Strasser wrote: »

Actually its not working, it appears to check for mail properly but no new messages are coming in,just sent myself a test message and not working.

Yes, this is what's happening to me too.

tom_in_cork · 15-07-2014 6:06pm

not back for me either
frustrating
for future, how does one route these emails to gmail? time to abandon iol.ie I think

Stargate · 15-07-2014 8:07pm

Still down for me here in Cork

Sent an email as a test , it went , but not can't get it back .

IOL.ie is my main mail addy for close on 12 /13 years now . Last time i had a problem with IOL i sorted it by deleting everything in my mailbox . That is not the case this time tho , my mailbox is empty .

I can login on http://webmail.iol.ie/cgi-bin/cwmail.cgi no bother at all.

Can not get my mail from there either ??

I'm using Windows Live Mail ( IOL POP ) Server

tom_in_cork · 15-07-2014 8:13pm

outgoing emails are delivered
incoming emails aren't
and incoming emails bounce back to sender

TontoMurphy · 15-07-2014 10:31pm

Does anyone know who maintains the @iol.ie service now??

Mr. G · 15-07-2014 10:59pm

TontoMurphy wrote: »

Does anyone know who maintains the @iol.ie service now??

BT Ireland.

dubmark74 · 16-07-2014 8:50am

I'm on IOL.ie email, I haven't got any emails since yesterday afternoon, if I send an email to my account it gets bounced back. just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. I can't seem to get a contact number for technical support. Thanks.

Sikpupi · 16-07-2014 8:52am

Ya.. same here. Nothing yesterday afternoon.... came back last night... and gone again this morning.

So... will just wait and see !

dubmark74 · 16-07-2014 8:54am

Sikpupi wrote: »

Ya.. same here. Nothing yesterday afternoon.... came back last night... and gone again this morning.

So... will just wait and see !

Thanks for that. I was only wondering the other day if IOL still exist. I've been on their email for years, was thinking of switching to gmail, but a lot of hassle.

IOL Email - Down, Cancelled??

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