Sky Mail and Gmail down?

[eyemdee]

I disagree, there are no problems with leaving them with the Gamil ones infact as there as there seems to be quite a few issues just lately with Sky's own servers it would save a bit hassle having to change them again.

I agree - I am not sure that the problem is with Sky's servers anyway! The pop.googlemail.com server IP address resolves to 74.125.79.29 and pop.tools.sky.com resolves to 74.125.79.208 on the same (googlemail) subnet. My theory is that pop.tools.sky.com is some sort of routing device at google which probably has port 995 disabled or some other silly fault which is why we are all having this stupid problem collecting our email.

[rushy]

I'm afraid that workaround with the server settings doesn't work for me - Outlook keeps downloading messages from ages ago - 2007 included

[HelBel65]

Mine working at last

[bazelk]

Just logged in to sky email via "windows live mail" and all is back to normal, as of 27/02/09 00.15PM

[orbiter]

Just logged in to sky email via "windows live mail" and all is back to normal, as of 27/02/09 00.15PM

Yep Outlook 2007 is now receiving mail for me again too

[madrat]

put my settings back to .tools.sky.com and it's all working OK

[jackthelad]

Outlook working this morning - but for how long?

[Tom]

Mine is back, too. I don't know why I should be relieved because the workaround performed quite well for me, but I am. I suppose I feel comfortable with what I have known and worked with.

Thanks, everyone for sharing your experiences.

[Snaps]

Well I can now get on My Sky (Whoop de doo)

Whats the pluses and minuses to leaving the pop and smtp settings at googlemail, which still works for me?

[mydi]

Me too up and running again, Outlook 2007 but as said , how long for