Oceanfree mail

Topcat101

Anyone here having same trouble as me ??

Site email down all day, no one answering the help line :mad: :mad: :mad:

Stark

I'd consider migrating to a different e-mail address. BT have been anxious to dump the Oceanfree service for years.

I dumped mine ages ago as they were making no attempts to stop the tide of spam into my account. Not to mention that their webmail is rubbish and the quota is miserable.

wheres me jumpa

Ah good old Oceanfree, those were the days.

Stephen

The dark age days of pay-per-minute dial up you mean!

Tobias Greeshman

Oceanfree eh!! Ah that brings me back, I had one in college IIR

Get yourself a gmail account, and you'll never look back.

wheres me jumpa

Stephen wrote:

The dark age days of pay-per-minute dial up you mean![/QUOTE

In those words.....yes, but fond memories nonetheless.

dave.h

Yeah, it's gone for me too. I've tried looking up their IP addresses etc but they seem to have disappeared from the DNS servers.

I could really do with that address working at least til I migrate to a new address. Do you think it'll come back up? This happened for a day or two in May also.

Dave.

Pet

Yeah it's a bit annoying alright, I use my oceanfree email addresses for shopping/ebay type stuff, and it's a pain in the hole the past few days without it.

trout

according to www.dnsstuff.com, the mail server associated with the mx record for oceanfree.net is currently timing out ... so no dns responses, and no mail routing is taking place

wonder if many people still use this service ?

i agree with the silas fella ... time to get a gmail account and move on ... sure google will take over the world eventually, we may as well get on board the love train now;)

Pet

smtp.oceanfree.net is still working though, because I use it as my smtp on Thunderbird, and all my other accounts are sending mail through it with no problems.

trout

tried that too ... smtp.oceanfree.net still fails to resolve for me ...

Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at ns1.oceanfree.net. [212.2.162.1]: Timed out. Trying again.
Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at ns2.oceanfree.net. [212.2.162.2]: Timed out. Trying again.

why would that be ?

Bogus

The first day in a long time where I haven't been offered penis enlargements, stock quotes, must-read info on get rich quick schemes and requests from various bogus banks to provide them with details of accounts I haven't got - great!

Topcat101

Still down this morning, I use this for work ! was off for past 2 weeks badly need to get access!!

Custodian

Oceanfree's incoming mail server (mail.oceanfree.net) seamed to be back working between 8 am to 9.
Therefore if you are waiting on urgent mail I recommend keeping outlook open and you should be able to retrieve some mail even if it’s intermittingly on/off line,
It also appears like the technical team hasn’t fully restored the service on the web site, as that’s still down.

God love them, at least there trying.

trout

Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at ns.esatclear.ie. [194.145.128.1]: Got CNAME of mail.esatclear.ie. and referral to ns.esatclear.ie. [took 158 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.COM. (zone: ie.) [took 87 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.COM. [204.123.2.19]: Got referral to pixiedust.esatclear.ie. (zone: esatclear.ie.) [took 87 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at pixiedust.esatclear.ie. [194.145.128.2]: Reports that no MX records exist. [took 123 ms]

Answer:
No MX records exist for mail.esatclear.ie. [Neg TTL=86400 seconds]

Details:
pixiedust.esatclear.ie. (an authoritative nameserver for esatclear.ie.) says that there are no MX records for mail.esatclear.ie.
The E-mail address in charge of the esatclear.ie. zone is: dnsmaster@esatclear.ie.

NOTE: One or more CNAMEs were encountered. smtp.oceanfree.net is really mail.esatclear.ie.

Looks like BT are trying to swap out mail servers ... good luck lads!

Pet

Heh. The first email I get today is from online.ie, advertising their new premium email service.

Call it conspiracy?

trout

Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.) [took 91 ms]
Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.31.80.30]: Got referral to pixie.esatclear.ie. (zone: oceanfree.net.) [took 8 ms]
Searching for smtp.oceanfree.net MX record at pixie.esatclear.ie. [194.145.128.2]: Got CNAME of mail.esatclear.ie. and referral to ns.esatclear.ie. [took 111 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at d.root-servers.net [128.8.10.90]: Got referral to GNS2.DOMAINREGISTRY.ie. (zone: ie.) [took 7 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at GNS2.DOMAINREGISTRY.ie. [198.133.199.103]: Got referral to pixiedust.esatclear.ie. (zone: esatclear.ie.) [took 10 ms]
Searching for mail.esatclear.ie MX record at pixiedust.esatclear.ie. [Unknown IP]: Error: Couldn't resolve DNS server name/IP [pixiedust.esatclear.ie][11004].

Answer:
An error occurred: Couldn't resolve DNS server name/IP [pixiedust.esatclear.ie][11004].

Details:
I could not get to the nameserver authoritative for mail.esatclear.ie. Sorry!


NOTE: One or more CNAMEs were encountered. smtp.oceanfree.net is really mail.esatclear.ie.

lads ... ye may give up!

irishgeo

surely they cant withdraw it with out notice.

Ruu_Old

Boo I used an oceanfree.net email addy in college, I want it back.

irishgeo

Just use the 194.145.128.58 instead of mail.oceanfree.net

Custodian

It appears like it’s all back to normal for ocean.:)

Stark

Woohoo, I need to order internet viagra.

Topcat101

irishgeo wrote:

Just use the 194.145.128.58 instead of mail.oceanfree.net

Cheers for that got mail thanks to the above, wonder why it won't work with
mail.oceanfree.net

many many thanks:D

Beelzebub

irishgeo wrote:

Just use the 194.145.128.58 instead of mail.oceanfree.net

Mail still not downloading from POP 3 server in OE. SMTP server is fine though.

Fidelis

Stephen wrote:

The dark age days of pay-per-minute dial up you mean!

But these guys (IOL) gave us unlimited off-peak dial-up for £20 a month, when Eircom wouldn't

Until, of course, they cut off high-usage users of a supposedly unlimited usage service.

Snowbat

Oceanfree were the first dialup provider in Ireland without subscription fees. IIRC they were also the first to provide 128k ISDN connections without requiring a subscription account. With STAC compression and good connectivity they were the gamers' ISP of choice for a while.
http://ireland.iol.ie/~kooltek/oceanfree.html

Beelzebub: If you're still having problems...
Is your email client using 'pop.oceanfree.net' for POP3?
Which DNS servers are you using (or who is your ISP)?

mizwizzy

My oceanfree email has never had problems ever since i joined back when they first came on the scene...

i do however have issues with smtp settings in Mozillas Thunderbird.... anyone know a way around this....maybe its just server issues today?

Pet

Is the POP3 server still down? mail.oceanfree.net still isn't working for me.

OFDM

Has anyone had success since connecting to oceanfree? - I'm getting "Cannot login to host (pop.oceanfree.net:110)" errors on the webmail and re-authentication errors when trying to connect to the POP3 server with Thunderbird.

Soundman

No problems logging in. My Dad has Oceanfree despite my efforts at getting him to use Gmail. The only problem he does have is the unbelievable amount of spam he gets each day. In excess of 100 emails, all spam.

OFDM

I'm still get the can't connect to pop.oceanfree.net error. Could it be that they're blocking access from Digiweb users?

Snowbat

Probably not on purpose - I'd guess either an obsolete DNS record or a routing issue at Digiweb or Esat.

If you're running Linux, install the tcptraceroute package and post the output of the following:

/usr/bin/nslookup pop.oceanfree.net
/usr/sbin/tcptraceroute pop.oceanfree.net 110

If you're running XP, post the output of the following ( How to copy text from a command prompt):

nslookup pop.oceanfree.net
tracert pop.oceanfree.net

XP is less useful for this as tracert uses ICMP (Esat seem to be blocking ICMP echo requests at some of their routers) but it will give some clues.

OFDM

It looks like some of my oceanfree account have been deleted! I had four, discovered one's still working, but the others come back as "user does not exist" if I send an email to them.

Peanut

Apologies for digging up an old thread , but if anyone needs to free up space/get a backup of their oceanfree webmail downloaded into a standard mail app./migrate the mails to somewhere else, you can now do this, thread is here
thanks

humbert

where were you five years ago!

Peanut

lol.. yeah it's a bit late, but.. I still use my oceanfree webmail for some stuff, and it wasn't until recently that I got to the point of complete despair with it & the 4meg quota.. (just moderate annoyance before that :-p)

Also would be curious to know if there are many people using Eircom webmail. I reckon there should still be a good few.

Trotter

Peanut wrote:

Also would be curious to know if there are many people using Eircom webmail. I reckon there should still be a good few.

I still use it a lot.. I wish they'd upgrade the user interface at least.. its pants.

humbert

yea, my parents use it to my continuing annoyance.