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BirdDog's avatar
BirdDog
Assistant Professor
7 years ago

Just me or is Hughes email down for everyone?

Been getting this since early this morning:

 

  • Hi BirdDog, 

     

    Thanks for letting us know, is it still happening now? Nothing's popping up in our reports about email, and we haven't heard elsewhere of similar reports. Amanda and I haven't been able to reproduce that error either.

     

  • BirdDog's avatar
    BirdDog
    7 years ago

    Working again so whatever causing it was temporary. Thanks for the replies.

  • I normally use Outlook and POP the account, but I just checked and my webmail on zimbra works... Using Ajax and HTML.

     

    That said, a 500 error on a web site usually means the underlying database is getting pounded. I can tell you I've been having a **bleep** of a time with script kiddies doing lots naughty things on my server as well as the main one I administer. Actually had someone hack in two days ago, and someone with repeated automated login attempts killed the database and caused a bunch of posts to not to publish on time (created a 500 error, which killed the WordPress cron).

     

    Also, spam is getting close to spamstorm levels of fake purchase orders, and "desperate to hookup" type things, ransom emails, etc.; as well as web site blog spam.

     

    Seeing lots of nonsense come out of the US, China, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina... it's rampant right now.

  • Hi BirdDog, 

     

    Thanks for letting us know, is it still happening now? Nothing's popping up in our reports about email, and we haven't heard elsewhere of similar reports. Amanda and I haven't been able to reproduce that error either.

     

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV

    It's working for me. 

     

    BirdDog wrote:

    Been getting this since early this morning:

     

     


     

    • BirdDog's avatar
      BirdDog
      Assistant Professor

      Working again so whatever causing it was temporary. Thanks for the replies.

      • Liz's avatar
        Liz
        Moderator

        Whew! Glad to hear it BirdDog! Thanks for the update. Have a good weekend!

         

         

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV

    I'm a little late to this, but mine's working.  I only sign in to it every few months to clean it out, as I only use it for Community notifications, and forwarding them to my normal email, at that.

     

    1760 notifications since I last signed in on July 25th.  :p  

     

    Edit:  Missed your new reply while I was checking it out and writing this reply, BirdDog.  Glad it's working again.  

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV

      "1760 notifications since I last signed in on July 25th"

       

      You're a busy guy!

      • GabeU's avatar
        GabeU
        Distinguished Professor IV

        maratsade wrote:

        "1760 notifications since I last signed in on July 25th"

         

        You're a busy guy!


        I was a little surprised, to say the least.