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Outage

[Resolved] Email Server Authentication Issue 4/4/2020

3:32 PM – Our email server provider is experiencing an authentication issue that may affect widomaker.com email accounts, as well as Hosted Email Pro Enhanced Email accounts. Plesk email accounts are NOT affected.

Users will experience issues with authenticating themselves for the hostedemail service on cluster B. As a result, they may not be able to pull any new mail, send new mail, or access webmail altogether.

Details and updates may be found by clicking the links/buttons, below…

Cluster B – IMAP/POP/SMTP/Webmail

6:37 PM – This incident has been resolved.

[Resolved] Webmail & IMAP Login Failures

12/3/2019 11:40 AM ET – Our e-mail server provider is investigating login failures when using certain methods of accessing email. Users may be unable to login via Webmail and may experience login trouble or connection degradation via IMAP. All further updates, and notification of resolution, will be posted on the following Incident Report page (click the button below)…

Webmail & IMAP Login Failures – Cluster B

12/3/2019 3:10 PM ET – All Webmail & IMAP email issues are now resolved and users should no longer receive any errors when logging in.

[Resolved] Webmail Issue

10/25/2019 6:12 PM ET – The Operations team fixed the stylesheets (CSS) not being able to load for the Webmail interface. Webmail should be expected to render normally, now.

10/25/2019 4:35 PM ET – We have identified an issue where Widomaker e-mail users may experience an issue trying to load their Webmail. The page may not load properly. Updates will be made available at the link button, below, as soon as possible…

Cluster B Webmail Issue

[Resolved] Issue with Domain Aliases for Email

Oct 18, 2019 – 1:08 PM ET – Issue resolved.

Oct 18, 2019 – 9:56 AM ET – There is currently an issue affecting customers with @widomaker.com e-mail accounts. In addition to @widomaker.com, e-mail users may also receive e-mail addressed to their account @widowmaker.com and @tni.net. Those domain aliases (widowmaker.com and tni.net) are not currently mapped to their original domains. As a result, users will experience the inability to receive emails at the address of an aliased domain until the issue is resolved. Our e-mail server provider is working on resolving the issue.

Updates on this issue may be found by clicking the button, below…

Cluster B – Domain Aliases

[Resolved] Office Phone Line Outage 5/16/2019

5/16/2019 10:00pam – Due to a telephone company outage, in our area, the telephone lines at Widomaker’s office are not working. Until the telephone company resolves the telephone service outage, please contact us by e-mail, or by dialing a temporary alternate number of 757-369-9438.

12:00pm – Phone service in our area appears to have been restored.

[Resolved] DSL Outage in Hampton Roads Area on 2/4/2019

[Updates will be added to the bottom of this post]

2/4/2019 2:00 pm: Verizon has confirmed that there is an outage affecting some DSL customers in the, Hampton Roads area. The outage appears to have started around 4:21 am (ET) on, Monday, February 4th, 2019. Verizon has not provided an ETR (Estimated Time of Resolution), at this time, and we are waiting for an update. We appreciate your patience.

2/5/2019 10:00 am: Per Verizon, the outage has cleared. Affected customers were able to reconnect shortly after, 9:00 pm, Monday evening (2/4/2019).

[Resolved] Webmail & Inbound Email Delivery

02/02/2019 9:07pm: Our e-mail server provider has posted a status update regarding an e-mail issue.

Investigating – We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with Cluster B on our Hosted Email platform. Users may experience issues logging in and using our Webmail interface, and with receiving email via external IMAP / POP connections. We will update you as soon as we have more information on the matter.
Feb 3, 2019 – 02:07 UTC

02/02/2019 10:36pm:

Resolved – Our Operations team has now resolved the intermittent issues we were having on Cluster B so full functionality and service has now been restored to the Webmail interface and inbound email delivery.
Feb 03, 2019 – 03:36 UTC

[Resolved 12/14/2018] DSL Outage in Powhatan Secondary Area of Williamsburg

Verizon has confirmed an outage in the area of Powhatan Secondary in, Williamsburg, Virginia. The outage began after power was restored to the area, following the snowy weather and power outages on, Sunday, December 9th, 2018. Verizon has stated they have no ETR (Estimated Time of Resolution), at this time. We are waiting for further updates. We appreciate your patience.

[Update 12/18/2018] We have received an update that Verizon cleared this outage at the end of the day on 12/14/2018. All outage tickets were closed on Verizon’s side. Affected customers have reconnected.

    

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