September 28, 2004

Email nightmare today

Posted at 18:59 | | 8 Comments | View blog reactions

My .Mac account does not work anymore today, I probably exceeded the 200Mb IMAP storage and it is my main account... Probably not a right choice for a professionnal account so I am shopping for a new IMAP 1Gb storage service (Gmail being both a partner and a competitor and not IMAP I exclude it for obvious reasons).

So if you have a good mail service to suggest me, I was told mailstreet was good, I would appreciate it !

If you tried to send me an email today, please re-send it, sorry about that.

In germany i would suggest web.de or gmx.de but i am not sure if either of them provides an english interface. Otherwise i am just having fun posting from the nokia 6600 ;)
greetings from the tram in cologne :)

Oliver thylmann, September 28, 2004 at 19:32

Run your own server. That will typically give you 40 or 60 Gb storage which should keep you going for a few months and/or allow the 6A Europe team to share files and work. If you just want to run e-mail and perhaps groupware then it is really no trouble at all to keep it going.

We support half-a-dozen startup companies on our main Rackspace hosted server. Rackspace are good but not the cheapest.

Allan, September 28, 2004 at 22:14

i have used fastmail.fm for many years, they are as the name implies fast, and very minimal, offter tons of different packages and have top notch support!

Gérard van Schip, September 29, 2004 at 00:01

I ran my own email server with IMAP...solve all your future email problem once and for-all.

James Seng, September 29, 2004 at 08:03

Loic,

I agree with Allan. Run your own server. Since you're in France - get a dedicated Linux server for €49/month with 80Go or more of disk space (amen.fr par exemple). Then you've got all the storage you need.

SixApart should really be providing all of that to all its employees though.

An alternative is to have rules that copy old emails off your IMAP storage to your local drive. That's what I have on my Mail.app. 60Mo only of IMAP/online emails and the remaining 5Go of mails on local storage (emails since 1991!).

Another idea: redirect all your emails to a blog ;-)
You've got terabytes of storage on Typepad no?

Hope this helps,

Yann, September 29, 2004 at 10:19

BTW, Apple acknowledged a bug with .Mac yesterday. It should all be back in order now...

http://www.apple.com/support/dotmac/
10:00 am PDT, September 28th, 2004: A small number of customers were having difficulties receiving mail due to database issues. The sender of the email will receive a bounce-back claiming that the destination account is over quota. The issue is now resolved and mail should be delivered as expected.

Yann, September 29, 2004 at 10:22

Did they do this because of you?

http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/5292198321131744/

Seems that they upped the storage to 250 MB ;) Keep posting loic, keep posting.

Oliver Thylmann, September 30, 2004 at 18:38

Thank you all for your help !

Oliver, I am positive it is NOT because of me but they seem to have had a full day problem because of the upgrade... Now fixed, I will stick with them until the next problem.

Loic, September 30, 2004 at 22:54

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