Bigfoot.com forwarding problems
David Uri
36 hours now.
Almost exactly a year ago, there was a thread in this ng with posters
complaining about the same thing. There still doesn't appear to be a
service status page on bigfoot.com.
I've emailed he...@bigfoot.com and given them an alternative reply
address, but I'm not holding my breath.
Regards,
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Java Jive
<davidu...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
> 36 hours now.
>
> Almost exactly a year ago, there was a thread in this ng with posters
> complaining about the same thing. There still doesn't appear to be a
> service status page on bigfoot.com.
I've been having the same problem, particularly with one address, not
so sure about the others. Unlike for yourself, this one address has
been showing problems for some time, though I'm not sure how long -
it's old, and I now use mail forwarding in my own domain, so I'm not
sure who still has the old one, but I do know it's still 'out there'.
I even deleted the account, checked it was deleted by trying to send
to it and getting an 'undeliverable' message, and then recreating it.
The confirmation for the 'new' account never arrived!
> I've emailed he...@bigfoot.com
I used the form on the website ...
> and given them an alternative reply
> address
I realised I hadn't done that just as I pressed the Submit button on
the form - bummer!
> but I'm not holding my breath.
I've asked them to liaise with Yahoo, so it'll be interesting to see
what happens.
I suspect one reason this tends to happen with Bigfoot is that it gets
into anti-spam black-lists, but I have no evidence to back this up.
It's just a hunch.
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Angus Rodgers
<ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
>On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:49:21 +0100, David Uri
><davidu...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
>> 36 hours now.
>>
>> Almost exactly a year ago, there was a thread in this ng with posters
>> complaining about the same thing. There still doesn't appear to be a
>> service status page on bigfoot.com.
>
>I've been having the same problem, particularly with one address, not
>so sure about the others.
Same here (with all my addresses, I think).
Since the hiatus last year, I've been meaning to move from Bigfoot,
but haven't got around to it.
Does anyone know of a good e-mail forwarding service, preferably free
or else very cheap (as cheap as the News.Individual.NET news server,
at 10 Euros/year)?
--
Angus Rodgers
Java Jive
web-forwarding for the price of a four-can of beer per year. For
example (note that the price quoted is for a limited period, I think
the price actually ends up at �5 pa):
http://www.ukreg.com/register-domains/
I used to forward both web-site and emails with them, now they host my
site ...
http://www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html
... but I still forward emails to my ISP.
There are tremendous advantages to using forwarding, and one or two
disadvantages:
Website:
+ You can host your webpages on your ISP account's, usually free,
webspace.
+ You put www.<your domain> at the bottom of your posts and emails.
Anyone following these links will be forwarded to the home page of
your ISP webspace.
+ When you change ISPs, you simply republish at the new ISP and
change the forwarding appropriately. As long as you have a back up on
your PC, you won't lose your site's contents. No need to alert family
and friends of the new website address.
- The biggest minus is that you can't deep link. That is: you can't
redirect people to ...
www.<yourISP>/sub/page.html
... by posting the address ...
www.<yourDomain>/sub/page.html
... This will only work if you redirect every page on your site, which
will rapidly become unmanageable (and I've not tried, so don't know if
it would actually work). However, you can define subdomains, pointing
to major subdivisions of your site, which may help.
EMail*:
+ When you change ISPs, you simply change the forwarding
appropriately. No need to alert family, friends, all the web-sites to
which you subscribe, etc, etc, of the new email address.
+ Families can share a consistent set of email addresses on one
domain.
- If a forwarded address gets compromised, you still have to change
it and tell all your contacts.
So, overall, forwarding gives you many of the advantages of having
your own domain, but at minimal cost.
*For emails, I think it makes sense to have about 3-5 ...
1) Family and close, lifelong friends
2) Other friends
3) Work, business, civic life related
4) Sign on at trusted websites.
5) Websites you're not sure of (or even better, use a disposable one)
... then, if one gets compromised, usually one used on websites, then
you needn't change all of them, only that section.
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:46:58 +0100, Angus Rodgers
<twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good e-mail forwarding service, preferably free
> or else very cheap (as cheap as the News.Individual.NET news server,
> at 10 Euros/year)?
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Angus Rodgers
<ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
>You can buy and register your own domain name and have email and
>web-forwarding for the price of a four-can of beer per year.
I have a domain, and I have all my Bigfoot addresses forwarding to
that, and it then forwards everything to my raw ISP address - which
I'm fanatically concerned to protect, after being bombarded by 1000
spam messages every day when I was with my previous ISP (Orange).
OK, so perhaps that experience with spam when I was with Orange has
scarred me mentally, and is causing me to behave irrationally! My
present ISP, IDNet, is infinitely better in every way (except that
they cost a lot more), and perhaps I should be starting to think
straighter, now.
Should I just resign myself to my domain possibly being compromised,
and simply get a new one when that happens?
I think my reason for NOT doing so is that, once a domain starts to
get spam, you have to abandon it altogether, whereas all that you
need to do, if a Bigfoot address is compromised (as did indeed
happen to me once - torrents of spam, unsurprisingly, on an address
I used for posting to Usenet), is get a new Bigfoot address. Easy!
I suppose I could just continue to use Bigfoot addresses for posting
to Usenet (as long as Usenet survives!), or for other throwaway
purposes, and gradually transfer all my /trusted/ correspondents to
my domain.
Still, I would prefer to have something exactly like Bigfoot, only
more reliable. Then I can carry on with my present belt-and-braces
approach.
Any thoughts? It's about time I started trying to think clearly
about this. Sorry if I'm rambling too much because I'm only just
starting to think ... 8-P
>- The biggest minus is that you can't deep link. That is: you can't
>redirect people to ...
> www.<yourISP>/sub/page.html
>... by posting the address ...
> www.<yourDomain>/sub/page.html
>... This will only work if you redirect every page on your site, which
>will rapidly become unmanageable (and I've not tried, so don't know if
>it would actually work). However, you can define subdomains, pointing
>to major subdivisions of your site, which may help.
I don't have a web site (yet), so this isn't a major consideration
at the moment, only something to take into account when planning.
>*For emails, I think it makes sense to have about 3-5 ...
>1) Family and close, lifelong friends
>2) Other friends
>3) Work, business, civic life related
>4) Sign on at trusted websites.
>5) Websites you're not sure of (or even better, use a disposable one)
>... then, if one gets compromised, usually one used on websites, then
>you needn't change all of them, only that section.
Yes, I operate an informal policy something like this, only less
elaborate, and not fully thought-out. I'd better start planning
more systematically.
>On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:46:58 +0100, Angus Rodgers
><twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good e-mail forwarding service, preferably free
>> or else very cheap (as cheap as the News.Individual.NET news server,
>> at 10 Euros/year)?
--
Angus Rodgers
Java Jive
<twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> I have a domain, and I have all my Bigfoot addresses forwarding to
> that, and it then forwards everything to my raw ISP address - which
> I'm fanatically concerned to protect, after being bombarded by 1000
> spam messages every day when I was with my previous ISP (Orange).
> Should I just resign myself to my domain possibly being compromised,
> and simply get a new one when that happens?
Risk is a combination of the likelihood of something happening and the
seriousness of the consequences if it does. You can minimise the
former by using disposable addresses for those sites you are uncertain
of, and the latter by giving different emails to different groups of
people, as indicated in my previous footnote, but I can't see there's
much more that you can do.
I think the rest is an unavoidable risk. If you give out any address
to lots of people or places, and then it gets compromised, then you're
going to have to communicate a change of email to everyone who has
that address, I can't see any way round that.
If my emails get compromised, I don't have the option of changing my
domain, because my web-site is now ranking quite high in certain
searches, and it takes months to get that to happen. I could change
the bit to the left of the @ sign, but not the bit to the right!
That's why in the past, before I devised the current system, I have
occasionally been quite aggressive in pursuing the originators of spam
- I've sent complaints to ISPs across the world, from the US to
China, and invoked the US & UK Financial and Police Authorities about
share dealing scam spam, what I suspect is child porn, and so on.
There's only so much you can do, but I make a point of making life as
uncomfortable as possible for the b*stards.
Let's put it this way, and nobody should view this as a challenge
<whisper>My current emails haven't been compromised yet, not even the
ones on my websites</whisper>. For the first time, I wondered if they
had a week or two back when I got a couple of spam whose origin I was
uncertain of. With some reservation, I clicked the unsubscribe
button, and, touch wood, that seems to have done the trick for now.
> I think my reason for NOT doing so is that, once a domain starts to
> get spam, you have to abandon it altogether, whereas all that you
> need to do, if a Bigfoot address is compromised (as did indeed
> happen to me once - torrents of spam, unsurprisingly, on an address
> I used for posting to Usenet), is get a new Bigfoot address. Easy!
Well, it's not really, because you still have to go round all the
other places you've used it and inform them of a new address. With
our modern, complicated on-line lives, that could be tens or even over
a hundred people and sites to inform.
> I suppose I could just continue to use Bigfoot addresses for posting
> to Usenet (as long as Usenet survives!), or for other throwaway
> purposes, and gradually transfer all my /trusted/ correspondents to
> my domain.
Certainly, having stuff you trust on a different email address from
stuff you don't is the minimum amount of differentiation needed.
> Still, I would prefer to have something exactly like Bigfoot, only
> more reliable. Then I can carry on with my present belt-and-braces
> approach.
I can't remember whether Yahoo do forwarding in their free package,
but you could try and find out.
> Yes, I operate an informal policy something like this, only less
> elaborate, and not fully thought-out. I'd better start planning
> more systematically.
'Systematically' is usually good.
PeeGee
[snip]
>
> I can't remember whether Yahoo do forwarding in their free package,
> but you could try and find out.
>
It's under the mail options. I use Yahoo "disposable" addresses for
anything other than relatives and "good" friends. I also use a second
Yahoo address specifically for Usenet and, every couple of weeks after a
quick glance at the list for possible non-spam, mark the rest as spam
for Yahoo filter improvement :-)
--
PeeGee
"Nothing should be able to load itself onto a computer without the
knowledge or consent of the computer user. Software should also be able
to be removed from a computer easily."
Peter Cullen, Microsoft Chief Privacy Strategist (Computing 18 Aug 05)
Angus Rodgers
<trie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Java Jive wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:58:00 +0100, Angus Rodgers
>> <twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>
>> I can't remember whether Yahoo do forwarding in their free package,
>> but you could try and find out.
>>
>
>It's under the mail options. I use Yahoo "disposable" addresses for
>anything other than relatives and "good" friends. I also use a second
>Yahoo address specifically for Usenet and, every couple of weeks after a
>quick glance at the list for possible non-spam, mark the rest as spam
>for Yahoo filter improvement :-)
Still not a single e-mail received via Bigfoot for what must be
about four whole days now! Getting desperate. I /think/ I can
probably organise the "catch-all" forwarding in 123-Reg Control
Panel to redirect spam if my domain name becomes compromised, so
it /ought/ not to be a problem to use several e-mail addresses @
my domain, even in insecure situations, but I'd still rather have
at least one completely disposable e-mail address to use, while
I'm checking this out. I'm still not thinking very clearly, and
I'm scared of screwing things up badly (in a panic over Bigfoot
failing me after years of use), so I thought I'd try the Yahoo!
thing.
I haven't used Yahoo! much, but I do have an existing account with
them which I used for taking part in one of their discussion groups.
I seem to have successfully created a *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address
to be associated with this account. (But see below: the website
said something about having sent me a confirmation message "by e-
mail"!) :-(
Going to "Options", and then to "POP Access & Forwarding" (this is
in "Yahoo! Mail Classic", which is the interface I seem to have to
use because I'm still on Windows 98SE - that doesn't seem to make
sense! - I'll worry about it later*), when I fill in an address
under "Forward incoming Yahoo! Mail messages to a different email
address", and try to "Save", or press Return or Enter, I get this
maddeningly uninformative error message:
"There was a problem
There was an error processing your request. Please try again."
Is there something I'm doing wrong, which should be obvious to me,
but isn't? I hope it's not that the system is waiting for me to
respond to the confirmation message it said it was sending me "by
e-mail", which can only be to the Bigfoot address I had previously
associated with this account ... :-(
If it's not obvious what I'm doing wrong, I'll try changing the
associated e-mail address in my account settings. But I don't
like trying to make more than one change at a time, especially
when something has gone wrong which I don't understand.
*Talking about things I don't understand: when I was creating
the new *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address, there was definitely some
message about "your system" [i.e. mine] requiring me to use the
"Classic" interface - but what on Earth do they mean by "your
system"? Surely all it can mean is the operating system, but
why should that affect something happening within a Web browser?
(Some recently introduced protocol which Firefox 2 can't handle?)
And now I can't even find the message again. This is turning out
to be one of those days! Sometimes I hate computers and feel
like a total idiot. And I've got two degrees, one of them in
computer science ... :-(
--
Angus Rodgers
Angus Rodgers
>I seem to have successfully created a *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address
>to be associated with this account. (But see below: the website
>said something about having sent me a confirmation message "by e-
>mail"!) :-(
In my panic, I forgot: there was an introductory message in my
Yahoo! Inbox, and I concluded that this had probably been the
"e-mail" they meant. So, with any luck, they probably /aren't/
expecting me to respond to some message sent via Bigfoot which
would probably never have arrived.
--
Angus Rodgers
Mike
> to be associated with this account. (But see below: the website
> said something about having sent me a confirmation message "by e-
> mail"!) :-(
>
> Going to "Options", and then to "POP Access & Forwarding" (this is
> in "Yahoo! Mail Classic", which is the interface I seem to have to
> use because I'm still on Windows 98SE - that doesn't seem to make
> sense! - I'll worry about it later*), when I fill in an address
> under "Forward incoming Yahoo! Mail messages to a different email
> address", and try to "Save", or press Return or Enter, I get this
> maddeningly uninformative error message:
>
> "There was a problem
> There was an error processing your request. Please try again."
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong, which should be obvious to me,
> but isn't? I hope it's not that the system is waiting for me to
> respond to the confirmation message it said it was sending me "by
> e-mail", which can only be to the Bigfoot address I had previously
> associated with this account ... :-(
>
> If it's not obvious what I'm doing wrong, I'll try changing the
> associated e-mail address in my account settings. But I don't
> like trying to make more than one change at a time, especially
> when something has gone wrong which I don't understand.
>
> *Talking about things I don't understand: when I was creating
> message about "your system" [i.e. mine] requiring me to use the
> "Classic" interface - but what on Earth do they mean by "your
> system"? Surely all it can mean is the operating system, but
> why should that affect something happening within a Web browser?
> (Some recently introduced protocol which Firefox 2 can't handle?)
> And now I can't even find the message again. This is turning out
> to be one of those days! Sometimes I hate computers and feel
> like a total idiot. And I've got two degrees, one of them in
> computer science ... :-(
>
> --
>
> - Show quoted text -
Back to the problem with bigfoot, I see that the bigfoot website is
now down. It doesn't look good.
Mike.
Angus Rodgers
<mike....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Back to the problem with bigfoot, I see that the bigfoot website is
>now down. It doesn't look good.
Strictly speaking, there is still a flashy corporate facade at
<http://www.bigfoot.com/>, but the "Email tools" page formerly
at <http://www.bigfoot.com/ef/en/index.jsp> looks like a goner,
with nothing apparently on the facade page to show that it was
ever there. (I seem to remember that it was pretty well hidden
already.)
(Just spent the last few boring hours creating eight new e-mail
forwarding rules, informing some of my most frequent contacts,
changing all my e-mail filters, re-munging my posting address,
and changing my signature ... I hope I've done this right ...)
--
Angus Rodgers
(e-mail address ends in org.uk)
PeeGee
IIRC, when you forward mail, a message is sent to the remote account to
validate that you have access to that account. Normally this would be a
sensible method of preventing malicious intent, but the receiving
address needs to be usable :-)
>
> If it's not obvious what I'm doing wrong, I'll try changing the
> associated e-mail address in my account settings. But I don't
> like trying to make more than one change at a time, especially
> when something has gone wrong which I don't understand.
>
> *Talking about things I don't understand: when I was creating
> the new *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address, there was definitely some
> message about "your system" [i.e. mine] requiring me to use the
> "Classic" interface - but what on Earth do they mean by "your
> system"? Surely all it can mean is the operating system, but
> why should that affect something happening within a Web browser?
> (Some recently introduced protocol which Firefox 2 can't handle?)
> And now I can't even find the message again. This is turning out
> to be one of those days! Sometimes I hate computers and feel
> like a total idiot. And I've got two degrees, one of them in
> computer science ... :-(
>
The "new" interface seems a bit "picky". It happens with only one of my
two accounts (same OS, same browswer, same settings) but I just click
"continue anyway" and it works fine.
Angus Rodgers
<trie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:39:07 +0100, PeeGee
>> <trie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Java Jive wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:58:00 +0100, Angus Rodgers
>>>> <twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> I can't remember whether Yahoo do forwarding in their free package,
>>>> but you could try and find out.
>>>>
>>> It's under the mail options. I use Yahoo "disposable" addresses for
>>> anything other than relatives and "good" friends. I also use a second
>>> Yahoo address specifically for Usenet and, every couple of weeks after a
>>> quick glance at the list for possible non-spam, mark the rest as spam
>>> for Yahoo filter improvement :-)
>>
>> [...]
>> I seem to have successfully created a *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address
>> to be associated with this account. (But see below: the website
>> said something about having sent me a confirmation message "by e-
>> mail"!) :-(
>>
>> Going to "Options", and then to "POP Access & Forwarding" (this is
>> in "Yahoo! Mail Classic", which is the interface I seem to have to
>> use because I'm still on Windows 98SE - that doesn't seem to make
>> sense! - I'll worry about it later*), when I fill in an address
>> under "Forward incoming Yahoo! Mail messages to a different email
>> address", and try to "Save", or press Return or Enter, I get this
>> maddeningly uninformative error message:
>>
>> "There was a problem
>> There was an error processing your request. Please try again."
>>
>> Is there something I'm doing wrong, which should be obvious to me,
>> but isn't? I hope it's not that the system is waiting for me to
>> respond to the confirmation message it said it was sending me "by
>> e-mail", which can only be to the Bigfoot address I had previously
>> associated with this account ... :-(
>
>IIRC, when you forward mail, a message is sent to the remote account to
>validate that you have access to that account. Normally this would be a
>sensible method of preventing malicious intent, but the receiving
>address needs to be usable :-)
This was before I started to try to arrange e-mail forwarding.
I'm pretty sure now it was only the welcome e-mail in my Yahoo!
Inbox. Sorry about the false alarm (but they could have made
the whole thing clearer).
>> If it's not obvious what I'm doing wrong, I'll try changing the
>> associated e-mail address in my account settings. But I don't
>> like trying to make more than one change at a time, especially
>> when something has gone wrong which I don't understand.
>>
>> *Talking about things I don't understand: when I was creating
>> the new *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address, there was definitely some
>> message about "your system" [i.e. mine] requiring me to use the
>> "Classic" interface - but what on Earth do they mean by "your
>> system"? Surely all it can mean is the operating system, but
>> why should that affect something happening within a Web browser?
>> (Some recently introduced protocol which Firefox 2 can't handle?)
>> And now I can't even find the message again. This is turning out
>> to be one of those days! Sometimes I hate computers and feel
>> like a total idiot. And I've got two degrees, one of them in
>> computer science ... :-(
>>
>
>The "new" interface seems a bit "picky". It happens with only one of my
>two accounts (same OS, same browswer, same settings) but I just click
>"continue anyway" and it works fine.
I tried again just now, and it worked this time. (Still awaiting
a confirmation e-mail, but at least there was no error message.)
Still somewhat groggy and confused, but less panicky now. Thanks
for the advice!
--
Angus Rodgers
(e-mail address ends in org.uk)
(was @ bigfoot.com, now broken)
Mutley
>I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
>36 hours now.
>
>Almost exactly a year ago, there was a thread in this ng with posters
>complaining about the same thing. There still doesn't appear to be a
>service status page on bigfoot.com.
>
>I've emailed he...@bigfoot.com and given them an alternative reply
>address, but I'm not holding my breath.
>
>Regards,
Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Found this thread via
Goggle new search. I'm in New Zealand and like you guys have had no
emails for the past 4 days. I use Bigfoot as my main email address
relayed to my ISP so I have had to change some newsgroups over to my
ISP address. Sure hope they sort this soon. Looks like webmail is
still down at 6.23 UTC Aug 05.09
Angus Rodgers
>On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:39:07 +0100, PeeGee
><trie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Java Jive wrote:
>>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:58:00 +0100, Angus Rodgers
>>> <twi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>
>>> I can't remember whether Yahoo do forwarding in their free package,
>>> but you could try and find out.
>>>
>>
>>It's under the mail options. I use Yahoo "disposable" addresses for
>>anything other than relatives and "good" friends. I also use a second
>>Yahoo address specifically for Usenet and, every couple of weeks after a
>>quick glance at the list for possible non-spam, mark the rest as spam
>>for Yahoo filter improvement :-)
>
>[...]
>in "Yahoo! Mail Classic", which is the interface I seem to have to
>use because I'm still on Windows 98SE - that doesn't seem to make
>sense!
The cheeky blighters!
"Looks like your operating system is incompatible.
Unfortunately, the all-new Yahoo! Mail doesn't yet run on your
operating system. You can either switch to one we do support,
or go back to Yahoo! Mail Classic."
What business is it of their what operating system I'm using? I've
no intention of letting them install anything on my computer. And
what if I were using Linux (which it is my intention to do as soon
as I can be arsed, i.e. not any time very soon)?
And the nerve of them, suggesting that I switch to an operating
system that they "support"!
>*Talking about things I don't understand: when I was creating
>the new *@yahoo.co.uk e-mail address, there was definitely some
>message about "your system" [i.e. mine] requiring me to use the
>"Classic" interface - but what on Earth do they mean by "your
>system"? Surely all it can mean is the operating system, but
>why should that affect something happening within a Web browser?
>(Some recently introduced protocol which Firefox 2 can't handle?)
>And now I can't even find the message again. This is turning out
>to be one of those days! Sometimes I hate computers and feel
>like a total idiot. And I've got two degrees, one of them in
>computer science ... :-(
I'm relieved to find that it wasn't just me being a total idiot.
(I'm creating a second address, at the moment, to use for Usenet
postings.)
--
Angus Rodgers
(e-mail address ends in org.uk)
(was @bigfoot.com - now broken)
warren100
Regarding bigfoot email not working, both me and my wife have not had
any since 31/7. Still nothing today, although our email account we have
with virgin is working great. Most of my contacts, site registrations
have my bigfoot account so this is a major pain !! I too tried the
bigfoot.net site for their email and you only got errors - not good at
all. It is up and running today but when trying to send a message via
their 'contact us' webform, it lets you get all the way to submitting
it and then says it is upgrading its servers to (try not to laugh !!!)
' improve customer service'. This occurred earlier this year for
several days but at least they responded saying they were having big
problems with a server upgrade.
I'm waiting to see what happens, but having had this happen twice now,
I'm tempted to start with a new email forwarding service elsewhere -
problem is, the point of using bigfoot was so I never had to update my
email contacts again !
'Angus Rodgers[_2_ Wrote:
> ;184984']On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT), Mike
> mike....@googlemail.com wrote:
> -
> Back to the problem with bigfoot, I see that the bigfoot website is
> now down. It doesn't look good.-
>
> Strictly speaking, there is still a flashy corporate facade at
> http://www.bigfoot.com/, but the "Email tools" page formerly
> at http://www.bigfoot.com/ef/en/index.jsp looks like a goner,
> with nothing apparently on the facade page to show that it was
> ever there. (I seem to remember that it was pretty well hidden
> already.)
>
> (Just spent the last few boring hours creating eight new e-mail
> forwarding rules, informing some of my most frequent contacts,
> changing all my e-mail filters, re-munging my posting address,
> and changing my signature ... I hope I've done this right ...)
> --
> Angus Rodgers
> (e-mail address ends in org.uk)
--
warren100
Angus Rodgers
<warr...@ntlworld.com.invalid> wrote:
>I'm waiting to see what happens, but having had this happen twice now,
>I'm tempted to start with a new email forwarding service elsewhere -
Although I over-complicated things for myself, in my panic, and I
also seemed to be a bit unlucky the first time, using Yahoo! as a
substitute for Bigfoot seems (from my limited experience so far)
to be quite straightforward. I've started gradually replacing all
my contacts via Bigfoot e-mail addresses with contacts via Yahoo!
e-mail addresses, starting with the most important. Unfortunately,
I messed up the process at the start by changing a lot of Bigfoot
addresses to addresses at my own domain, so I have to change some
of those again (the less trusted ones!) to Yahoo! addresses. But
I've also taken steps to protect myself from spam if my domain is
ever compromised, so that was worth doing as well.
>problem is, the point of using bigfoot was so I never had to update my
>email contacts again !
It's a real pain in the ***! I'm just glad that I never got around
to creating Bigfoot addresses for all my family, as I so helpfully
intended to do.
--
Angus Rodgers
(formerly twi...@bigfoot.com,
but Bigfoot has gone tits-up.)
Angus Rodgers
<davidu...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
>36 hours now.
A few e-mails have started to trickle through from one of my
Bigfoot addresses since last night. If I'm not mistaken, the
earliest has the timestamp: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:37:19 +0200.
Max Demian
news:e09l75t5dj6uao055...@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:49:21 +0100, David Uri
> <davidu...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>>I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
>>36 hours now.
>
> A few e-mails have started to trickle through from one of my
> Bigfoot addresses since last night. If I'm not mistaken, the
> earliest has the timestamp: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:37:19 +0200.
Same here.
I've got a test email I sent out on the 3rd.
--
Max Demian
David Uri
A few emails from the last five days have started trickling through to
my forwarding address, one yesterday and a few more today. Maybe it
will catch up eventually. Who knows?
Thanks to all who responded.
Regarded.
Mutlley
>On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:32:28 +1200, Mutley
><mutley90...@hotmail.REMOVEcom> wrote:
>
>>>I haven't had any emails forwarded from my bigfoot addresses for about
>>>36 hours now.
>>>
>>>Almost exactly a year ago, there was a thread in this ng with posters
>>>complaining about the same thing. There still doesn't appear to be a
>>>service status page on bigfoot.com.
>>>
>>>I've emailed he...@bigfoot.com and given them an alternative reply
>>>address, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Found this thread via
>>Goggle new search. I'm in New Zealand and like you guys have had no
>>emails for the past 4 days. I use Bigfoot as my main email address
>>relayed to my ISP so I have had to change some newsgroups over to my
>>ISP address. Sure hope they sort this soon. Looks like webmail is
>>still down at 6.23 UTC Aug 05.09
>
>A few emails from the last five days have started trickling through to
>my forwarding address, one yesterday and a few more today. Maybe it
>will catch up eventually. Who knows?
>
>Thanks to all who responded.
>
>Regarded.
Same here. Got this email from bigfoot.
"We sincerely apologize for the service interruption.
Our technical support discovered a connection problem to our mail
servers which they have recovered now. They advised me to check with
you if the change took effect or if there has been any improvement to
the forwarding status of your account.
Your lost emails are still in the pending queue and will be forwarded
in awhile.
Please monitor your forwarding address inbox for your emails.
Sincerely,"
Took them long enough to sort the problem out.
Mutlley
Looks like I was premature. It seems to have stopped again.. No
emails for the past 4 hours and test emails don't come back.
sed...@bigfoot.com
tigger
> Have not received any emails on my Blackfoot address for last five days
> is there any reason or can a fix be implemented
I fixed it for you....