Vodamail email alias

[Dolby]

Anyone had trouble setting up an email alias with Vodamail?

I tried setting up yesterday and by default, the mail account is [email protected]. This account does work perfectly, but I don't want to send my number out - so I setup an alias at www.vodacom4me.co.za which was [email protected] and set it to default. Vodacom call centre confirmed my alias on their server as well as all my settings correct. They've opened a case as they're not 100% of the issue and say it may be on their side.

I sent an email to the Vodacom call centre agent from my alias ([email protected]) which he received perfectly. However, when he replied I received nothing. Also, when I sent from my Mweb account I got the error (Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table)

What could the issue be?

 

[Dolby]

Seems it was resolved recently. When I posted this morning I was still having the same issues as last night ... now it's all good. Thanks!

Is Vodamail unreliable - or was I simply unlucky? The call centre mentioned there were issues last night.

 

[BFK]

Seems it was resolved recently. When I posted this morning I was still having the same issues as last night ... now it's all good. Thanks!

Is Vodamail unreliable - or was I simply unlucky? The call centre mentioned there were issues last night.

Probably find it took a while for the alias to replicate through the system. They normally say 24 hours for a change to come into effect.

 

[web]

Is Vodamail unreliable - or was I simply unlucky? The call centre mentioned there were issues last night.

Must say i have been using it since it was "invented" hasn't been any more unreliable than any other isp email address i have had in the past couple of years.

 

[internaut]

I've been getting other people's mail quite regularly who used the same alias as me. Some juicy and personal stuff nogal.

 

[Dolby]

Erm - right ... how do I prevent people like internaut getting my stuff?

 

[internaut]

Just avoid aliases like names and surnames or substitute vowels with numbers.
EG. Peter can become p3t3r.

 

[Dolby]

But when you select the alias, it comes back to say unavailable or not?

 

[internaut]

Well if it says unavailable then it has been taken. If it says unavailable for anything, then there's a pharkup somewhere.

 

[Big Kriss]

Irrespective of using an alias,do any of you have your mails returned as spam?
I find that the alias is purely eye candy..the actual mail addr.is still [email protected].
A lot of ISP abroad block this as spam because of the phone number preceding the vodamail
Ive reported this a few times to VC ..They in turn then ask for the provider details and then notify them that they now messing with the big guns now..After that no probs for a while..I found Otenet in Greece kills me sometimes..

 

[skoob]

I found that choosing a name and the doing it backwards works eg skoob = books or name =eman. I really battle with nic's and 'address and stuff (make sure it is something you can pronounce)

 

[Dolby]

I find that the alias is purely eye candy..the actual mail addr.is still [email protected].

But can people see this number easily?

 

[Big Kriss]

Absolutely! Its says "your nick"([email protected]).

 

[TonyA]

Setting up email boxes with Telkom is a shelp. They do it over the phone there is no way to do it over web except for aliases, but not a proper email address complete with private password.

 

[Big Kriss]

Use a GMail account.

Hehe...and a damn good spam filter....