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Email outage
May. 8th, 2023 08:00 pmSo, my (small) website host and email provider had an outage. I don’t know anything (maybe related to recent router upgrades?), other than that they were down completely in the middle of the day: no email, the home page didn’t load, and attempts to call their local phone number failed (didn’t ring busy or go to a full mail box — call failed). That was … uncomfortable.
I have an alternate email from a gargantuan email provider, and I’ve always had a certain amount of stuff go through that email but it’s kind of a pain because it’s closer to being my name and it turns out a lot of people try to use that email as if it was their own. Which is funny when it is people following up on selling a headstone, entertaining when it includes puppy pictures of a dog in a kennel and just flat out obnoxious when it is reservation reminders for rental cars, hotels, mani/pedis, restaurants that have absolutely nothing to do with me.
But I have been doing a better job keeping up, because for obscure reasons, one of my book group participants just cannot seem to receive email from me at the small, main email, so I now send email from the gargantuan email provider and as a result all my book group correspondence (mostly) is over there which means I actually keep up on the random shit that drops into that inbox.
When I got my main email access back, I started switching accounts over. I’m terrified to do some of the oldest, most embedded accounts, but FB, for example, I didn’t have to do anything with, because it already had both emails on it. Zoom it turns out I made a mistake and created (years ago) a free account associated with Big Email and my paid account is at Little ISP and that means I can’t just add the Big Email to the paid account. I have an open request out to them for help.
Switching the IRS over turned out to be ludicrously easy. EBay is persistently impossible (because they let someone else open an account using my Big Email; I’ve known about that for a while and it has not been possible to fix it). Some of the other financial stuff has been relatively straightforward to switch over. I’ve been deleting dead accounts (fitbit, plated, imperfect foods, mango through the local library) and learning things (oh, look, misfit markets serves my area now. I wonder if I care?).
I have an alternate email from a gargantuan email provider, and I’ve always had a certain amount of stuff go through that email but it’s kind of a pain because it’s closer to being my name and it turns out a lot of people try to use that email as if it was their own. Which is funny when it is people following up on selling a headstone, entertaining when it includes puppy pictures of a dog in a kennel and just flat out obnoxious when it is reservation reminders for rental cars, hotels, mani/pedis, restaurants that have absolutely nothing to do with me.
But I have been doing a better job keeping up, because for obscure reasons, one of my book group participants just cannot seem to receive email from me at the small, main email, so I now send email from the gargantuan email provider and as a result all my book group correspondence (mostly) is over there which means I actually keep up on the random shit that drops into that inbox.
When I got my main email access back, I started switching accounts over. I’m terrified to do some of the oldest, most embedded accounts, but FB, for example, I didn’t have to do anything with, because it already had both emails on it. Zoom it turns out I made a mistake and created (years ago) a free account associated with Big Email and my paid account is at Little ISP and that means I can’t just add the Big Email to the paid account. I have an open request out to them for help.
Switching the IRS over turned out to be ludicrously easy. EBay is persistently impossible (because they let someone else open an account using my Big Email; I’ve known about that for a while and it has not been possible to fix it). Some of the other financial stuff has been relatively straightforward to switch over. I’ve been deleting dead accounts (fitbit, plated, imperfect foods, mango through the local library) and learning things (oh, look, misfit markets serves my area now. I wonder if I care?).