We have just introduced the beta-test version of a new webmail system for all Tidymail users.
The service is based on the prayer webmail program, with some adjustments for our environment.
So, please try out the new service and let us know what you think by mailing us at helpdesk@tidymail.co.uk
This beta service is now closed.
We have just introduced a new webmail version for our beta-system users at wizmail.org.
The service is based on the prayer webmail program, with some adjustments for our environment.
So to all wizmail.org webmail users, please try out the new service and let us know what you think by mailing us at helpdesk@wizmail.org
This beta service is now closed.
We’ve just rolled out a new feature. Image-Only Spam Blocking. This is a method of spotting the resurgence of image-based spam where there is no accompanying text or clickable links, but where the spammers include the name of the site in the image itself sometimes with a help section explaining how to type the URL into your browser.
This is currently enabled as part of the URL blocking code which works on the clickable links.
Number of connections doubled over the last week….. they’ve found us again. We do seem to be keeping most of the extra load out, which is good.
There will be an outage of 3 hours commencing at 15:00 GMT on Sunday 15th March 2009.
During this time we will be performing an Operating System upgrade on the secondary Tidymail machine that is used for backup of incoming email and by those customers sending via post.wizards.co.uk.
During this time sending email via post.wizards.co.uk. If you require the ability to send email during this time you should reconfigure your client to use the post.tidymail.co.uk server Please note that this server requires you to authenticate to send. Step-by-step instructions for configuring your email client can be found here
There will be an outage of 3 hours commencing at 15:00 GMT on Sunday 8th March 2009.
During this time we will be performing Operating System upgrades on both main Tidymail machines. The outages will be sequential which mean there will always be a machine able to receive incoming email.
During this time sending or collection of email will be intermittently unavailable..
All of our metered rates have been dropping steadily this week,
bar the “accepted mails”, to maybe two-thirds of the previous week.
This follows the expected steady ramp-up post new-year.
Maybe we fallen off some spammer’s radar?
I’m not complaining.
We took a one-hour hit starting just after midnight today.
Apparently the psu blew in one box in one of our supplier’s racks, and took the whole rack out. I guess a breaker tripped. Our 2MX went down, and that system is also the outbound used by most of our customers (we’d prefer they used the 1MX, actually). Worse, the routers upstream from us went out – so although the 1MX stayed up, the outside world couldn’t get to it!
Sorry, everyone. All well now.
Behaviour change in the incoming connections this week; dumb and easily detected (and rejected).
I smell some new junkware out there, which hasn’t had the rough edges knocked off it yet.
The ramp-up continues, but it’s nowhere near back to the autumn rate yet.
So it looks like our weekend holiday from spam is over –
connections are back to where they were last week, a slowly rising trend after
the takeout of the major Californian operator a couple of weeks back.
Ho hum.
The feel is different too, more russian sources and poor-quality bot-software
with easy patterns of HELO names to spot visually.
