Tag Archives: email

Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto Article

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Support

Nice write up of the long drawn out war against spammers and protecting email services from abuse: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html Written by Mike Hearn, a very smart/savvy ex-Googler Found via tweet by Matt Cutts: http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/508108603253743616 As mentioned in the above article, a … Continue reading →

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24 hours in the life of an email server

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Support

I was looking at our main email server statistics for the last 24 hours and thought I’d share a few: The server blocked 55% of all connection attempts immediately before they even got to trying to send, all thanks to … Continue reading →

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Shared Email also Wind Powered

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Support

Our older shared email system (mx1.athnic.net) is now running from the UK data centre.

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New Wind Powered Servers in UK

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Support

We are pleased to announce that our new UK based Ecotricity wind powered service is now live! The new service runs on IBM flagship hardware optimised for speed including use of the latest Intel XEON Nahelem CPUs and 10k 2.5″ … Continue reading →

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Mailing Service Email Scam

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Support

20/10/2009: A new email scam is becoming very prevalent at this time. The emails suggest you follow a link because your email service has been updated and you need to apply the settings. Details are below. If you receive any … Continue reading →

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New Customer Login Area

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Support

Coming soon! After many months of hard work our new customer system is getting very close to it’s first release (hopefully within the next month or so). Initially there will be an expanded customer login area allowing easy updates to … Continue reading →

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Hotmail Deleting Legitimate Email Messages

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Support

I’ve been having suspicions for sometime now that I might have problems sending to some Hotmail accounts. Eventually it became apparent that in some cases emails simply disappear into the ether without a trace and without informing the sender or … Continue reading →

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Major Update to Email Service

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Support

At 4.30am this morning, we finally completed a major new email service installation. POP3 mailbox setup and passwords, aliases, forwards, out of office responder and spam control all configurable by individual users via a specialist web based control panel and … Continue reading →

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