webmail problems?

[Zen]

Is anyone else having problems logging into their webmail account? Everytime i fill in my details and click submit i get redirected back to the front page and told i have to log in again because my session has expired. Is anyone else having similar problems or am i totally alone on this one?

[Miz Manda]

Quite a few of my friends and I are getting the same thing.

[hr]Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.

[amac]

Yeah, same here

[Wong]

If you log in in a way other than using the web page it seems fine.

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[Cain]

so it's not just me. makes me feel better.

most PCs with windows have telnet somewhere on there. do a search for it, and then you can get in that way.

type
"O"
return
""
return
""
return
""
return
"setup pine"
return
"pine"
return
"i"

[hr]
It's not who you know, it's who who you know knows

[JM]

Damn it - im waitinf for an important email. Suppose at least it means that it aint my pc thats mcked up if we're all havin the problem

[Preacher's Kid]

I still have no idea what telnet is, but it's a miracle. Thank you Cain. thank you.

[edited to replace 'wong' with 'cain'. oops]

[Wong]

Yes, I have to admit that Cain's advice was significantly more complete than my own!

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[LizBot]

Thanks for the help! I'm trying to access WebMail through telnet, but whenever I get to the part where I type (my server), this message comes up:


Could not open connection to host, on port 23: connect failed

Any ideas?

[Kegrad]

[s]LizBot wrote on 09:18, 21st Nov 2004:
Thanks for the help! I'm trying to access WebMail through telnet, but whenever I get to the part where I type (my server), this message comes up:


Could not open connection to host, on port 23: connect failed

Any ideas?


try edge.st-and.ac.uk but has telnet access not been stopped anyway? In that case you'll either need to use putty in a pc classroom somewhere or if you have windows, download it yourself from here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta ... nload.html
(scroll down to "For Windows 95,..." and click on putty.exe).
Run this program, leave everything as it is, except for the host name, change that to edge.st-and.ac.uk and then click "open" and then "yes". Follow the instructions as cain said and you should be fine!

[Miz Manda]

When I use telnet it tells me that I have new messages but then when I type 'I' to try and get in, I get command not found.

[hr]Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.

[Nickel]

give the commands
setup pine
pine -i

[Miz Manda]

Thank you.

[hr]Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.

[kezziecats]

I find eudora is much easier to use, just install it, then put your domain name in as:
bute.st-andrwes.ac.uk
(change bute depending on server)
then put in your login name
Is much easier to navigate than telnet

[Thackary]

Or if you'd prefer to use a web-based client, go to http://www.mailreader.com
Click on "secure (finland)"

Enter your username, password and mailserver (eg edge.st-and.ac.uk)

You have webmail access!

[LizBot]

Brilliant! Thanks so much!

[harmless loony]

I can't access any of the IT services pages - or the online application forms to update my resnet connection. That's such a pain cos according to the webpage the form should be working but it's not...stupid stupid.....

And I can't get into webmail either..is it certain servers that are down or is everyone affected?

[Thackary]

It's the webmail webpage itself.


To clarify, "webmail" is just a means to access your email account.

See the above posts for more information on alternative means to check your email.

[harmless loony]

Yeh I have checked my email using the way u have shown already - had nothing exciting in there!!

But it's just a pain when I'm used to reading my mail one way but then have to find another way (I'm lazy)

Oh, slightly off the topic here - I read somewhere that from April next year we will no longer be able to read our hotmail using outlook express/outlook unless you have a premium hotmail account - does anyone know if that's true?

If so then can anyone recommend an way for me to be able to collect my hotmail, uni email and yahoo in one programme?

[Kizzy]

It's working again!