Major Gmail Outage. Time To Go Back To Mymail.tcd.ie?

Cantab. · 01-09-2009 11:19PM #1

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/218209/GMail-Experiences-Serious-Outage?art_pos=1

This is not the first time it's happened either. Also, Trinity email has been disrupted on more than one occasion since the move to google. And I don't want a portal when I access "myzone.tcd.ie" - I just want to check my email. Why can't ISS run a server with roundcube email? That's what they do, right?

ilovemybrick · 01-09-2009 11:37PM

Cantab. wrote: »

And I don't want a portal when I access "myzone.tcd.ie" - I just want to check my email.

I'll defer to better technological understandings on some points but if you use mytmail.tcd.ie there is no portal to go through.

Cantab. · 01-09-2009 11:41PM

ilovemybrick wrote: »

I'll defer to better technological understandings on some points but if you use mytmail.tcd.ie there is no portal to go through.

mymail doesn't work for students.

ilovemybrick · 02-09-2009 12:01AM

Cantab. wrote: »

mymail doesn't work for students.

Mytmail.tcd.ie

Note the t

jingx3 · 02-09-2009 12:06AM

1. It's back up.

2. Those hacks in the SU already sent their precious spam last night, so you didn't miss anything.

j1smithy · 02-09-2009 12:47AM

Cantab. wrote: »

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/218209/GMail-Experiences-Serious-Outage?art_pos=1

This is not the first time it's happened either. Also, Trinity email has been disrupted on more than one occasion since the move to google. And I don't want a portal when I access "myzone.tcd.ie" - I just want to check my email. Why can't ISS run a server with roundcube email? That's what they do, right?

myzone.tcd.ie was even less reliable back in the day no? TCD mail by Google is one of the good things about the college, you get to keep your email for life, very handy for contacting old classmates and friends, even if its been superseded by facebook. The large inbox is great too, you do remember we only had 100MB with the old system, and that filled up fairly quickly with junk and huge attachments that were often sent out.

Fallen Seraph · 02-09-2009 01:01AM

clearly trolling if you think ISS would do a better job than anyone at anything.

JC 2K3 · 02-09-2009 01:09AM

Cantab. wrote: »

And I don't want a portal when I access "myzone.tcd.ie" - I just want to check my email.

So go to http://mail.google.com/a/tcd.ie

karlr42 · 02-09-2009 11:13AM

Having previously used http://mail.google.com/a/tcd.ie , I now disown it and pledge all allegiance to the mighty shorter and more simple URL of http://mytmail.tcd.ie

Ron DMC · 02-09-2009 11:17AM

I noticed no outage whatsoever.

Oh, the joys of using IMAP direct to my phone.

JC 2K3 · 02-09-2009 11:22AM

Hmm... having realised that mytmail.tcd.ie was an alias, I thought I edited my above post to reflect that....

Ron DMC · 02-09-2009 11:25AM

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Hmm... having realised that mytmail.tcd.ie was an alias, I thought I edited my above post to reflect that....

Tbh, firefox autocomplete makes it just as easy to type either. Or have a bookmark button.

Jonathan · 02-09-2009 11:31AM

Ron DMC wrote: »

Oh, the joys of using IMAP direct to my phone.

Indeed. And with xmpp, I was the only person on chat last night

Ron DMC · 02-09-2009 11:36AM

Jonathan wrote: »

Indeed. And with xmpp, I was the only person on chat last night

I was too, using nimbuzz.

karlr42 · 02-09-2009 11:37AM

Only n00bs use web interfaces, us pros just get access to the underlying protocol

Jonathan · 02-09-2009 11:37AM

Ron DMC wrote: »

I was too, using nimbuzz.

I must add you to my chat list so :P

Micilin Muc · 02-09-2009 11:40AM

DCU and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra will be using Google Apps from next week. Apart from Gmail, what other Google apps are available to TCD students?

Ron DMC · 02-09-2009 11:41AM

Micilin Muc wrote: »

DCU and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra will be using Google Apps from next week. Apart from Gmail, what other Google apps are available to TCD students?

Calendar. And I think docs was on the way, but I honestly haven't logged in in sooo long to bother checking.

Micilin Muc · 02-09-2009 12:34PM

Ron DMC wrote: »

Calendar. And I think docs was on the way, but I honestly haven't logged in in sooo long to bother checking.

Are student and staff timetables available through Calendar?

Ron DMC · 02-09-2009 12:48PM

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Are student and staff timetables available through Calendar?

God no, that'd be way too clever a thing for ISS to ever do.

Major Gmail Outage. Time To Go Back To Mymail.tcd.ie?

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