Free PArking - problems with mail forwarding.

Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?

Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.


Invisible Man

Invisible Man wrote:
> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?

Not at present, but I don't get much email from my freeparking accounts.
If you email them, they are normally efficient at rectifying problems (I
have had email delays from them in the past).

"Invisible Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?
>
> Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
> A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.

Yes, my e-mail seems to be delayed by quite a bit. I was setting up a new
computer for my wife, and a test message from her plusnet address to my
address at Free Parking and back to my plusnet address took maybe 8 hours.
One direct to my plusnet address was virtually instantaneous.
Can anyone suggest a replacement for FreeParking for my domain name and mail
forwarding??

Retired

"Retired" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Invisible Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?
>>
>> Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
>> A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.
>
> Yes, my e-mail seems to be delayed by quite a bit. I was setting up a new
> computer for my wife, and a test message from her plusnet address to my
> address at Free Parking and back to my plusnet address took maybe 8 hours.
> One direct to my plusnet address was virtually instantaneous.
> Can anyone suggest a replacement for FreeParking for my domain name and
> mail forwarding??

It's certainly slower than it used to be (just test messages), but my
FreeParking account doesn't appear to have email delays of hours, maybe only
a few minutes.
You could try 123-reg.co.uk as an alternative.

"Invisible Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?
>
> Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
> A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.

I had a few problems recently with emails sent to my Freeparking addresses
not turning up at all. I contacted Freeparking support and they claim to
have fixed it now (although I never did get those emails). However, I've
noticed since that emails seem to take at least an hour to be forwarded by
them. One took six days!

I'd also be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative to
Freeparking. I don't need website hosting or forwarding, just quick and
reliable email forwarding.

Ant wrote:
> "Invisible Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?
>>
>> Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
>> A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.
>
> I had a few problems recently with emails sent to my Freeparking addresses
> not turning up at all. I contacted Freeparking support and they claim to
> have fixed it now (although I never did get those emails). However, I've
> noticed since that emails seem to take at least an hour to be forwarded by
> them. One took six days!
>
> I'd also be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative to
> Freeparking. I don't need website hosting or forwarding, just quick and
> reliable email forwarding.
>
>
I did raise a ticket and got a fairly prompt and courteous response.
They blamed a software upgrade. Now seems to be running fairly well

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Ant" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
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> "Invisible Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Anyone else having problems with mail forwarding from Free Parking?
>>
>> Some seems to be delayed up to about 6 hours.
>> A hotel confirmation and a flight confirmation simply haven't arrived.
>
> I had a few problems recently with emails sent to my Freeparking addresses
> not turning up at all. I contacted Freeparking support and they claim to
> have fixed it now (although I never did get those emails). However, I've
> noticed since that emails seem to take at least an hour to be forwarded by
> them. One took six days!
>
> I'd also be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative to
> Freeparking. I don't need website hosting or forwarding, just quick and
> reliable email forwarding.

I have a domain hosted by freeparking which I use for much of my email,
and noticed the recent delays too. I've been with them for a few years
and significant delays certainly do tend to happen from time to time. Often
enough for for me to notice them as an occasional nuisance and think
about moving, but not often enough for me to actually get round to doing
anything about moving!

I suspect Freeparking's servers run pretty close to capacity, so that
outages or abnormal events can quickly lead to problems. I'd expect
anyone operating at that cheap end of the market to to offer a similar
quality of service, so would be wary about swapping. Out of the frying
pan into the fire, springs to mind. I might be interested in a service
which cost more, at some point, if I could be certain the service
quality would be high.

--
Tim Clark

On 4-Sep-2007, "Tim Clark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I suspect Freeparking's servers run pretty close to capacity, so that
> outages or abnormal events can quickly lead to problems.

The sheer volume of spam can slow down many mail servers, get a
webmail email service such as Hotmail, Freeserve/Orange, Netscape/AOL,
Gmail, Tesco (may still be free to card holders), and don't
advertise your new email address to harvesters.
With these you can swap ISP's and your email addresses remain the
same.
Use one as a spam flypaper, one for signing up for things,
one for friends and relatives, etc.
Use MailWasher to sort out the spam.

In article <46de847e$0$13927$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) writes:
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> On 4-Sep-2007, "Tim Clark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>> I suspect Freeparking's servers run pretty close to capacity, so that
>> outages or abnormal events can quickly lead to problems.
>
> The sheer volume of spam can slow down many mail servers, get a
> webmail email service such as Hotmail, Freeserve/Orange, Netscape/AOL,
> Gmail, Tesco (may still be free to card holders), and don't
> advertise your new email address to harvesters.
> With these you can swap ISP's and your email addresses remain the
> same.
> Use one as a spam flypaper, one for signing up for things,
> one for friends and relatives, etc.
> Use MailWasher to sort out the spam.

No thanks. I want email sent to a domain which I own arriving on my own
computer. There programs which I've written, or are in control of, can
go through it, sort it, archive copies, etc. without me even being
present. I don't work for my computer - it works for me.

To me, webmail is typical of the problem with much of computing now.
Many have been conditioned into thinking that computers can't do
anything useful without a human chained to them with mouse and keyboard,
actually doing most of the work themselves.

--
Tim Clark