Telkom email suffers major issues

[Bradley Prior]

Telkom email suffers major issues

Many people have been reporting problems with Telkom’s email system over the past two weeks.

Users with “@telkomsa.net” email addresses have been encountering major issues with their mail service, being unable to send or receive mail for days on end.

 

[backstreetboy]

Is this 2007? Move to Gmail.

 

[Takkies]

Did the article say that the whole of Telkom crashed or is it just the email?
Just checking? Neither would be surprising.

 

[Stokstert]

I got this email from Telkom yesterday.

 

[deweyzeph]

Is this 2007? Move to Gmail.

More like 1997. It's mainly old oomies and tannies who don't know any better. They probably still have the same email address that was given to them with their 54k dial-up modem.

 

[Grouter]

More like 1997. It's mainly old oomies and tannies who don't know any better. They probably still have the same email address that was given to them with their 54k dial-up modem.

75% of my client base.

 

[LCBXX]

What exactly is 'the whole of Telkom'? I use their LTE and it's been fine, I use their mobile network and it's been fine.

I feel this problem is not significant enough to warrant an article, let alone us commenting on it.

 

[lkswan747]

SMS message received from Telkom:
Dear customer, we are aware that some Telkom Internet users are currently not receiving incoming emails. System maintenance will be conducted this coming weekend to resolve the problem. As a result, your Telkom Internet service may be intermittently unavailable between Saturday 8 June from 14:00 until Monday 10 June 00:00. We apologise for any inconvenience. Telkom Team.

Is it a mail problem or an ISP problem?

 

[Bryn]

I die a little inside every time I see someone using a Telkom, Vodacom or Mweb email address.

 

[Creag]

Moved to Gmail about 2 years back when I switched to FTTH. At the time I was worried about what was connected to that email address. While I would still prefer working my emails in Outlook, the absence of stress about accessibility to my mail is worth it all.

 

[Apogee]

More like 1997. It's mainly old oomies and tannies who don't know any better. They probably still have the same email address that was given to them with their 54k dial-up modem.

We all get to that stage sooner or later.

It's 56kb/s by the way.

 

[deweyzeph]

It's 56kb/s by the way.

Haha, that shows you how long ago it was.

 

[Bryn]

Moved to Gmail about 2 years back when I switched to FTTH. At the time I was worried about what was connected to that email address. While I would still prefer working my emails in Outlook, the absence of stress about accessibility to my mail is worth it all.

The type of email address you use should have no bearing of your ability to use it within the desktop Outlook app. I never access my Gmail via the web.

If you only need one email address, a Microsoft account with the @Outlook.com domain is a great option. The web app is way better than Gmail imo, and the lower user count makes it easier to get a better address. And with Office 365 it gets 50GB mail storage.

I'm lucky to have both [email protected] and @outlook.com. But even then I prefer Outlook for my personal email.

 

[backstreetboy]

The type of email address you use should have no bearing of your ability to use it within the desktop Outlook app. I never access my Gmail via the web.

If you only need one email address, a Microsoft account with the @Outlook.com domain is a great option. The web app is way better than Gmail imo, and the lower user count makes it easier to get a better address. And with Office 365 it gets 50GB mail storage.

I'm lucky to have both [email protected] and @outlook.com. But even then I prefer Outlook for my personal email.

Not at all Gmail's spam filters are years ahead and much better.

 

[r00igev@@r]

The people who have telkom email addresses also probably still use Beltel....

 

[Apogee]

The people who have telkom email addresses also probably still use Beltel....

Those were the days.

Accoustic couplers ftw.

 

[Bryn]

Not at all Gmail's spam filters are years ahead and much better.

Spam filtering isn't rocket science. My domains have SpamExperts filters and pretty much nothing slips through. I don't get spam to my Outlook address either and it's likely because Microsoft isn't incompetent in this area.

Spam shouldn't be an issue for anyone in 2019. All my web forms have reCAPTCHA v3 too, so the support and admin email addresses show very little being blocked in the SpamExperts logs.

 

[Johnatan56]

Spam filtering isn't rocket science. My domains have SpamExperts filters and pretty much nothing slips through. I don't get spam to my Outlook address either and it's likely because Microsoft isn't incompetent in this area.

Spam shouldn't be an issue for anyone in 2019. All my web forms have reCAPTCHA v3 too, so the support and admin email addresses show very little being blocked in the SpamExperts logs.

I still have it filter through a gmail account, what ends up in inbox gets forwarded.
reCaptcha v3 has a tendency to fail if the IP is still "fresh", so no reputation associated (and only have had a handful of these vs reCaptcha v2 which had quite a bit more), but MS should also catch it quick.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Those were the days.

Accoustic couplers ftw.

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Is that what connects the Telkom email servers????

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Moved all email addresses to gmail. Added advantage, gmail is ISP independent.