mrmaxx Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Although all fixed now I should post this as it explains some of the outages: Got this from Spamcop Deputies: at some stage during the night: "something hardware" really explains SOOO much </sarcasm> I, for one, would like to know what, if any, steps they are taking to prevent another "single point of failure" but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for someone to reply back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpamCop 98 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Two weeks ago it was a user's password getting out and the resulting storm of cutwail bots took things down. So there you have it, spammers. No rate-limiting capacity on this email server, and a lone, careless user can bring the whole system down. Also apparently no redundancy, fail-over server or even alarms that would notify the sys op. And this is acceptable? IN 2014? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameHere Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 March 29 mid-morning, webmail is down again for me. ???? :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrsherrard Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I'm down as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eileenfar Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 yep. me, too. you're not alone. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVRx7 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Webmail is down, POP is down, SMTP is still working so cesmail is getting "inbound" mail... Faith in cesmail rapidly spinning down the drain..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameHere Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Well, CESmail Twitter now says out through this evening. That's actually more information than usual, so thanks! Still suspicious that they're using this forum to figure out when the system is down. Or I just happened on the outage right after it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVRx7 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 gawd how I "love" the advanced warnings they gave us here in the forum & via their twitter feed... yes, sarcasm mode is full on.... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hank Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Is this an appropriate place to discuss how to back up everything in Spamcop email to a local copy, so it can be referred to when CESMail isn't available? I've been using the free MailStore Home, running in a Windows virtual machine, because it's the only tool I've found. Using that -- since the time Spamcop Mail turned up empty a while back -- when I realized that when an IMAP server turns up blank, the local email copy cheerfully erases itself to conform to that. But I'm not too clever about how to actually use MailStore Home's archives, because I have to set up a Windows mail reader to deal with the archive. And the further I get into Windows, the unhappier I am ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davem4 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 It sounds like you might prefer POP over IMAP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye1111 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 YEAH! It's back up and running! (Until next weekend?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hank Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 It sounds like you might prefer POP over IMAP? Nope. Quite the opposite. I'm asking about backing up an IMAP account, because I use IMAP by choice. It has this problem, that's what I'm asking about working around by backing up locally. POP has other issues I don't need to go into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Is this an appropriate place to discuss how to back up everything in Spamcop email to a local copy, so it can be referred to when CESMail isn't available? <snip> ...Sure, that seems like an inoffensive-enough subject. It might merit its own Topic (thread), though, so as not to get lost among all the other posts here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 ...Sure, that seems like an inoffensive-enough subject. It might merit its own Topic (thread), though, so as not to get lost among all the other posts here.... The "Backing up" topic is pinned and it is http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12066 and hank was a prominent contributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameHere Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I thought Dilbert today was apropos of our webmail service. (Smiling when I say that.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex_Brit Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 LOL, that's wicked....;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I thought Dilbert today was apropos of our webmail service. (Smiling when I say that.) Nothing apparently to do with the e-mail system, but the reporting service status charts show a dip of 5/6ths in spam volume processing fairly well concurrent with the above being posted - eerie, or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidT Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I have found the "Reporting Server Status" to be pretty meaningless, inconsistent, and worthy of ignoring for the last several years. Gaps in that graph used to coincide with SC Email Service outages, but that's no longer the case. DT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 johnsenchak's and unclewoody's posts approved for public viewing. For more information, please see my latest post in Topic "Alternatives to Spamcop." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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