Yesterday am a Verizon tech working on the place next door yanked out all of our circuits. This put our datacenter dark and took us off the Internet across all of our lines. Because it took out our DNS servers even the SSH servers and such were unreachable.
We’ve had no luck getting Verizon back out here today. They move at their own pace and we’re two services back from them. We shouted at anyone who would listen, tried to escalate, tried to get a weekend visit once 5pm hit, but no luck on any. It looks like we will remain down until Monday…on their techs error…I am furious.
We have since added additional dns servers and are working at getting the SSH servers to again respond to logins. Currently the update has propagated and the web hosting servers, irc, and socksplus are now available. Soon the rest of the SSH servers will be as well. Webmail and pop/imap/smtp look like they will remain down until Monday.
I’ve completed the new fetch mail feature, it is in limited beta now. If you’d like to try it out send me an e-mail. Basically it is a way to get e-mail from any other mail provider (even yahoo without a paid pop account).
Most of the popular e-mail services are listed in a self configuring droplist. You also have the ability to add custom servers. It can connect on any port, with any popular authentication method, any of the common protocols (pop, pops, imap, imaps, httpmail), and it will automatically use SSL/TLS if the server supports it.
Mail can be scheduled to be retrieved from other accounts both on demand and even when you are not logged in. So set up your other accounts and then you’ll only have to connect to cotse via pop/imap/or webmail and it will all be there, your other mail fetched automatically throughout the day for you.
All fetched mail passes through our filters. This enables you to apply all our filters to your other e-mail accounts. Headers are added so it’s easy to key on which account fetched what in any custom filters or redirects you’d like. It will also provide you with detailed reports of the transaction if you wish.
It is infinitely configurable and has more features for connecting to different e-mail sites than most mail clients. The other plus is that all those sites see is a cotse IP fetching mail, so it shields you from them as well.
I’ll run it limited beta for a while and hope to move it live to a site wide beta within a week or so. Again, if you’d like to try it now, send me an e-mail.
