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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Billy Death, Aug 31, 2015.

  1. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    Can anyone help me with this?
    Sometimes I send an email & it go's straight through.
    Other times they are taking literally several hours.
    Anyone know about this because it's doing my ****ing napper in.
     
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  2. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    must be the people your trying to send to keep rejecting them mate........<laugh><laugh><laugh> MUST KNOW YOU WELL
     
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  3. The Relic

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    Literally several hours? Sounds vaguely familiar. Are you sending attachments via hotmail, by any chance, mate? They are the world's worst for that. I swapped for yahoo two or three years ago, and they're miles faster. One thing though - if you do swap and you have a paypal account, don't forget to close that and start a new paypal account with your new address. I didn't, and it cost me a downloaded product which they still sent to hotmail. I had to buy it twice. Hope this helps. Good luck with it.
     
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  4. marcusblackcat

    marcusblackcat SAFC Sheriff
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    Yeah it's not to do with your pic mate. Most likely your email provider. I use gmail and never have problems. The wife uses hotmail and has intermittent issues like you...


    Failing that... Turn it off and back on and you're fine
     
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  5. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    Cheers. My IP provider is TalkTalk & my email address is with them.
    Don'i use hotmail or gmail but if it persists I'll give it a go.
     
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  6. The Relic

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    Not hotmail Billy, whatever you do - they might be worse. Gmail or yahoo would be fine.
     
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    I've got 3 hotmail accounts, never had a problem with any of them...
     
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  8. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    Is gmail free?
     
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    marcusblackcat SAFC Sheriff
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    Yeah. You used to have to be recommended but they stopped that to get more people on side!
     
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    They're all free, its just a question of how reliable they are and how much they spam you with stuff. I use yahoo and find them to be good.
     
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    Talktalk use AOL (America On Line) for their email system or as we used to call them America OFF line - they are sh**e so don't expect a good consistent performance from them
     
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  12. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    I agree they are pish. I've set up a gmail one. I'll see what that's like.
     
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    gmail is very good. you get 10gb of free storage with gdrive too, so you can access your files, pucs whatever from anywhere very quickly and smoothly
     
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    Nordic, Sep 1, 2015

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