TA5

My company e-mail and all of my 'pop' e-mail accounts have stopped working. All smtp as well. At first I thought it was a problem with our e-mail provider but i can't access my gmail 'pop' nor a pop server located in the US.

Anybody else having problems?

Face81

yep, mate........ cant get into my work e-mail or hotmail or uni e-mail accounts..... Browsing is fine, but e-mail accounts arent.

The operation keeps timing out.


Whats going on?

TA5

Dunno, something with pop access, i figure some idiot somewhere blocked the normal ports for pop and smtp.

Good to hear that it is a universal problem and not just me.

Face81

Etisalat sucks! I cant wait for Etisalat II. :scared:


This is terrible, now I cant send out my work e-mails and instead I have to spend more time on here.

Singlemom

Company called Etisalat cause we couldn't chat they said the international line is down...no idea what that means....they're working on it

W10

Really odd thing is that hotmail is usually blocked at my work, and for some reason it's now working

TA5

That makes sense because EIM e-mail accounts were working. My e-mail seems to be working again as well, however i'm at home no on DIC telecom and not EIM.

W10

Weird, my office isn't in DIC or on a DIC connection as far as I know, yet I can get it.

However. Been told that it might have something to do with the fact that an underwater cable was severed last night/this morning.

So don't expect a fix soon.

TA5

what email account is it? emirates.net.ae?

W10

Nope - hotmail.

Maybe they are supplied by DIC, even though the office near Defence Roundabout?

Face81

cant get into hotmail, gmail or work e-mail now and browsing is VERY slow as well.

W10

The cable severing has meant reduced capacity, meaning Etilsalat has given priority to browsing.

POP servers, peer to peer and online gaming will be slow or non existent until the cable gets fixed.

Face81

bugger this!

The Internet is crap today.

secretdubai

The redundant links deployed by Etisalat for such an eventuality has meant that normal Internet browsing and essential traffic will continue to work smoothly.

Bull-****ing-shit. Gmail.com is not working - so unless there are major problems internationally (and there aren't, or it would be on the news) they've deliberately blocked it. My overseas ISP isn't reachable by Pop or its webmail version. MSN isn't working (nor is Webmessenger). irc isn't working.

All these things in my opinion are "essential traffic". It's my ****ing email, for ****'s sake.

**** it.

secretdubai

Oh and this fking thing censors my fking swearing.

AND 800 6100 isn't working - it's "busy". I suppose that means there are plenty of other people just as fking mad as I am right now.