CCS has the worst email reliability ever

aberry@uoguelph.ca's picture

If CCS was a commercial ISP, I think they'd be rated lower than Bell, or Rogers. They managed to break their email servers Saturday morning, and at least for POP users it's still broken Sunday night. Even testing via OpenSSL/Telnet, I can't get past the USER/PASS commands. Best part, they don't do tech support on weekends.

A near 48-hour outage for email would raise hell for most ISP's (I know having worked for one with way more subscribers/accounts than CCS). Even assuming that Webmail / IMAP works fine. I guess I'm just pissed that I'm stuck using @uoguelph.ca email due to university policies; I would be even more pissed if I was a post-grad alumni paying a fee for the service. I doubt there's anything I can do now, but does anyone have any suggestions about how to raise the sheer incompetence of CCS's technical abilities with a higher authority? I'm very annoyed that I just can't "change providers", so to speak.

For reference, using OpenSSL's s_client to talk POP manually:

blizzard:~/ andrew$ openssl s_client -connect mail.uoguelph.ca:995
(snip the SSL cert verbosity)
+OK POP3 ready
USER aberry
+OK
PASS my1337password
-ERR internal server error
closed
blizzard:~/ andrew$

CCS's latest notice about the email outage

--Andrew

Well I'm glad IMAP is happy,

Well I'm glad IMAP is happy, otherwise our login would break again. Wyatt only just fixed the double-login issue about a week ago, making our logging in finally possible without any roughness.

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Martin Lindsay
SOCIS System Administrator

athomp01@uoguelph.ca's picture

This is summer semester;

This is summer semester; better they run into trouble now then move-in week.

Now if only they'd fix CalDAV...

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Tony Thompson

aberry@uoguelph.ca's picture

Yeah. I asked about that in

Yeah. I asked about that in a help desk call (it's supposed to be supported), but that was two months ago with nothing since. Luckily for me the Zimbra Sync plugin for OS X works if you change your timezone to a US timezone, but I imagine that screws you as a Linux user.

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Andrew

athomp01@uoguelph.ca's picture

iJust purchased a new cell

iJust purchased a new cell phone, so my (aging) powerbook is likely going to be my synchronization center. All that stuff is a major major MAJOR hassle in linux anyhow.

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Tony Thompson

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