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WarningU2
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join:2002-10-27
Burlington, ON

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Re: [Eastern Ontario] Email malfunctioning

I've been getting an occassional pop up complaining about authentication (like before), the last few days on my last remaining cogeco account. I'm not using F-Secure.

I decided to kill the last account because of it. Pretty well sure I've caught most of the email that needs to use my new address. Quite an exercise but now I'm ISP independent.

And now I have no more cogeco authentication errors. Sad what has become of a once great ISP.

I suspect that the number of clients is much less than a million now. I'm only staying with Cogeco for TV and Internet until Bell pays me to get their fibre service. I need more fibre ... or so my doctor says so I can crap better.
peterboro (banned)
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join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON

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said by WarningU2:

Sad what has become of a once great ISP.

Indeed. Almost a week now and still having problems.

nogeco
@cgocable.net

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Our domain hosted email by Cogeco hasn't been working for days either
robman50
join:2010-12-14

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Email is crawling this morning. Anyone else seeing this?

margaret
@bellsouth.net

margaret

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we R in Florida. Cogeco webmail sooooooooo sloooooow.IF working at all. What gives? sure not impressed with Cogeco!
robman50
join:2010-12-14

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Found this:
Webmail & Email - Maintenance in Progress
»www.cogeco.ca/web/on/en/ ··· ance.php
Dingaan
join:2002-02-19
Bath, ON

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You should really forget about Cogeco webmail. I know they are updating it, but their track record is not good.

It is easy enough to set up Gmail or Outlook.com to fetch your Cogeco mail from the Cogeco severs. I have used both.

Outlook.com is quite new and replaces Microsoft's Hotmail (Don't know why they chose the name because it has nothing to do with another MS program called Outlook) It is very easy to setup to get your Cogeco email and you can add as many aliases (email addresses) as you wish. You don't have to do this, but it is sometimes useful.

I am considering going 100% to outlook.com. Not that Gmail wouldn't also be good, but it isn't as clean an interface.

urbanriot
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join:2004-10-18
Canada

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said by Dingaan:

(Don't know why they chose the name because it has nothing to do with another MS program called Outlook)

I'm guessing you've never used Outlook Web Access or Outlook 2013? Outlook 2013 on my Windows 8 system looks very similar to my Outlook.com email.

sofawall
@cgocable.net

sofawall

Anon

Microsoft changed the name mainly because the name Hotmail was associated with children's email address etc. and wasn't seen as a very high tier product, while everyone seems to remember and like Outlook.

As for the webmail, I've heard multiple Cogeco reps saying that the webmail issues are supposed to be fixed "by the end of November", but in the meantime using mail2web.com is working for checking webmail. To my knowledge there aren't any ongoing POP issues, but the floor reps at Cogeco typically know about the issues way after the users do (although they tend to know about the issues way before they're allowed to advise it's a known issue) so I'll take what they say with a grain of salt.