When our SMTP servers try to make a connection to any of hotmail MX servers the connection is either accepted and then closed immediately or outright rejected.

There is nothing on the hotmail/Microsoft postmaster site to acknowledge the problem at this stage however it has been reported on twitter that it may be down for as long as 8 hours which allegedly came from a Microsoft technical support representative.

If you have sent an email to someone on Hotmail, our servers will continue to retry to deliver the message until the Hotmail servers come back on-line. You don’t need to re-send.

Data backups can now be provided on demand. The turnaround time for this service is up to 2 weeks. We expect some customers may wish to have this done on a monthly basis.

MessageBunker is available from our network of Accredited Partners

Based on a modern, flexible architecture designed for virtualization and cloud-scale infrastructure, the Zimbra technology provides substantially lower total cost of ownership than traditional solutions. Zimbra products offer a full enterprise feature set and excellent interoperability with legacy email environments. Zimbra has been deployed across small and large environments as a hosted service with leading email solutions providers such as The Very Good Email Company.

As a Zimbra Silver Hosting Partner we look forward to continuing our close working relationship with Zimbra and to a great future for both companies.

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/zimbra.html

We’ve re-vamped our existing Partner Programme and is actively seeking to recruit new Partners from within the Channel.

The new programme provides the ideal platform for Partners to leverage the power of high performance email anti-spam, anti-virus, hosting and archiving services. As well as introducing formal Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditations with training, enhanced margins, co-op funding and client referrals, the company is removing a number of its services from direct sale and made them available solely through our Partner channel.

To apply and start adding new revenues to your business simply contact our Partner Team.

“If you’ve ever lost an important email, then you already understand why having a backup and recovery system in place is so important. Accidentally deleting an important message or attachment can cause you more than just anxiety or heartbreak, it can cost you money, too. Unfortunately, there’s no way to predict when a technology disaster could strike, which is why it is so important to invest in a quality archiving solution before a problem comes up.” Read review here

Email solutions provider APM Internet has today unveiled a new brand identity that represents a significant consolidation of focus as a leading email solutions provider. The re-brand deliberately bucks recent the trends in IT services of having abstract names that bear no relation to a company’s chief activity.

The company went through an internal exercise (no expensive brand agencies) and kept coming back to one name. That name summed up their focus and would make it easy for potential customers and partners to readily understand what the company did, and what it stood for. From today the company’s new public identity is The Very Good Email Company, with a new website and collateral in place to support this new brand.

Adrian Mardlin, MD at The Very Good Email Company commented: “Our old name didn’t clearly say what we do – our new identity as The Very Good Email Company reflects our focus as an email solutions provider and our ethos of performance and customer care.” He continued: “No clever names – or expensive ‘branding’ exercises – just a simple, straightforward name that ‘does what it says on the tin’.”

Paul Evans, Technical Director, added: “The new name gives an idea of the type of team we are. This is not a cocky attitude or marketing ‘mist’, it’s a bar; a level of achievement we are setting for ourselves. It’s not about assuming the right to refer to ourselves as ‘very good’ but rather a title we intend to continuously earn from our customers.”

February 24, 2009
Today’s news that Google Gmail has suffered another major outage must ring alarm bells for many businesses that rely on this platform for their communications, flagging the need to back-up their email ready for the rare occasions that things go wrong.