Leprechauns in his eirecom?

[Loose rivets]

My pal Paddy, from time to time, sends me e-mails from Dublin...some with attachments, some without. Every so often, we go through a spell of him not being able to send me anything!. Several tries, then maybe one get here.

He's on eirecom / eircom whatever - and using Outlook he tells me.

I'm on SBC, and use Yahoo mail. No spam guard.

I get most things as far as I know, Viagra in particular. (how do they know?) I think he's the only one that I have trouble with. He says the same thing. I've turned off my Avast, but am not totally sure that it's not hiding - looking at stuff arriving. Is it that sneaky?


Any other ideas?

[bnt]

Since it's Outlook, the first place to check is the Outbox. If the mails are leaving the Outbox, then that means the computer is set up correctly for sending, and that's where your friend's involvement ends. If an ISP is genuinely unreliable - that is, if the problem is not on the user's side - there's little that an individual user can do about it, other than seek alternative.

Switching to a web-based email provider would be a start. I think Eircom does have a web interface to their mail system, so that might be the first thing to try, but if that doesn't improve matters: Gmail.

[frostbite]

I know a chap in Ireland that is frequently having problems with his email.

Fairly sure he uses Eircom, so maybe that's where the problem lies.

[Loose rivets]

Thanks for that. I'll paste your reply in an e to him.

[The late XV105]

I had a problem whereby e-mails from my brother would not always arrive at my work e-mail account. After protracted investigation the cause was found to be a specific combination of anti-spam rules not at my employer's gateway to the big wide world but their ISP's entry point. The ISP at the time (Not Telia but one of the other bigger ones in Sweden that I can't recall now) made some changes and there have been no problems since. Interestingly one of the several anti-spam rules comprising the cocktail in question involved blocking e-mail from that tiny UK domain called btinternet.com! ;)

[Keef]

Quite a few ISPs use one or another of the "blocking lists". BTInternet seemed to get on those with alarming regularity at one time.

It's worth checking which one your ISP uses, and if Eircom is blocked on that.

[Loose rivets]

Understood, Keef. But would a few get through? Thanks also XV

Nice to see some posts from Essex BTW. Well it would be if I wasn't so jealous...I'm delayed here in 100f temps due to grandparenting duties. :mad:

[Keef]

Dunno how it would be selective and let just a few fru. As you say, probably the leprechauns. What might fix it is to have a separate address for him to write to you - one with a mailbox that isn't "filtered". If you know how to set your mail programme (Thunderbird/Outlook/Express/MSMail etc) to poll multiple addresses, I can set you up with a mailbox on essexman.org.uk (one of my domains ;) )

Essex is pleasant at the mo - warming up nicely, expecting 17°C today and 18 tomorrow. Granddaughter 3 arrives about noon for lunch with the wrinklies, followed by a trip to the swimming pool with grandma.

[Loose rivets]

Thanks Keef. Check your PMs.


Both my pal and I are committed to finishing our books, so sometimes the e-content is rather long as we compare notes. As software gets more complicated, less gets written. There has to be a formular to descibe these diminishing returns. The inverse square-law would have to come into it somewhere. Come back Display Write.

He has been 8 years on his - quite quick, compared to my 30. His is nearly done, but mine can be likened to one man building a cathedral. I have some foundations, a wall with a nice window in it...and an arch or two, one even has a door. The thousand tonnes of stone blocks piled nearby, is what I sit on while I dream.

[mtanz0]

Take it from someone who had Eircom for a few months, it's most probably the ****test most expensive 'broadband' in europe. I had a 2 meg service and dial-up in the UK would be faster. It's a load overpriced ****e, like so much else in the south of Ireland. Haven't invested any money in the telecoms infrastructure and think by dishing out fancy looking routers that people will be fooled. The problems with unreliability are inherent in it.

[Loose rivets]

Hah! At last, an answer that he, as a retired pilot, will understand.:}

I'll forward it saspo.

[Jofm5]

If your friend is suffering problems with the Eircom SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers he can bypass these and transmit his mail directly from his machine using something like Local SMTP Relay Server free download. Local SMTP Relay Server is a SMTP server program for Windows that lets you send email messages directly from your computer. Along with a mass mailer t... (http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Mail_Server_Tools/Local_SMTP_Relay_Server.html)

After installing one and starting it, change the outlook mail account settings so that the local machine name is the smtp server name and not the eircom smtp server name. Then all sent email will go direct from their machine and not touch the Eircom SMTP server.