Rediffmail down!


Heck! Right from yesterday evening I have been trying to login to my rediff email account… :( Looks like those guys are working on some update. But its seriously too long a period for an email service to go offline like this… Its already shooting up to reach 24 hours now.

I was expecting some important business mail and another urgent email. Its really frustrating to see the ‘Service temporarily unavailable :(’ page right there on logon…

Only God and Rediff knows wats the problem. I dont think it is a service update or upgrade thats causing the delay to restore things back to normal. Its a common practice to pilot test such updates and the service should have been back online in an hour or so. May be its some network or hardware failure/upgrade thats taking this much time.

I think such email services should have their official blogs to keep their subscribers updated of the latest with them. Whatever.. I am still sulking… I wish I had given my regular business email for the urgent commuinication. :(

24 Responses to “Rediffmail down!”

  1. Deep wrote on December 23rd, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    Rediff and Indiatimes are the worst email service providers… Gmail and Yahoo are the best. Infact Indiatimes mail servers are blocked by spam lists lol

  2. Khan wrote on December 25th, 2006 at 11:49 am

    hi,
    I’m here because i tried the text ’service temp…unvailabl’ in the rediff search box. Well, it’s now 3 days. I hope there will be no disaster except waiting.
    regards,
    khan

  3. RKumar wrote on December 25th, 2006 at 3:10 pm

    Hi All,
    I am waiting for my rediffmail to work for the last 4 days due to Service temporarily unavailable .

    Can any one knows the Rediffmail Customercare number.

    Regards
    RKumar

  4. Aseem N wrote on December 25th, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    So its finally back online. Can login to my account. But just noticed that I have not received a single email during the last 3 days :(!!! Wdf! I get around 5-10 emails on my account daily. And now not a single one?!!! And I missed some important ones too :( :( :(

    Anything similar with you guys?



  5. Chacko wrote on December 25th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    Aseem - I know how you must be feeling, I suggest you change to gmail or a similar service. I have a gut feel that rediffmail etc. won’t last long!

  6. smiley wrote on December 25th, 2006 at 8:35 pm

    it had been logged out for more than 3 days now and it still continues to say “service temporarily unavailable - sorry for the inconvenicence” nobody seems to answer from customer care of rediffmail.

    it looks like a bug; or the rediff servers are totally down in some parts of the world.

    because i hve been having a rediffmail account since a very long time and this has never happened.

    so i join the club of worried users.

    hey rediffmail…… is anyone listening out there?

  7. ketan wrote on December 26th, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    hi there,
    rediffmail is now gettin on my nerves….. for me its now 6 days that i cud not login but whereas my friends do login……so i was worried…..
    thank god im not the only 1…..
    does sum1 have rediffmail customer care number?
    thanks.
    -bye.
    -ktn.

  8. RKumar wrote on December 26th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

    Hi Ketan
    Pls. find the Rediffmail customer care number as per below,

    +91 - 22 - 24449144 then press 221 for Rediffmail customer care.

    I have already spoke to them today morning they told me that they are aware of this problem and told me to check after 7PM today.

    Will hope it will work today……..

    Regards
    Ramesh

  9. Anil wrote on December 26th, 2006 at 6:33 pm

    Finally Am able to login after 6 days, but have only one mail in my accout from rediffmail customer care.
    Hopefully they’ll be able to recover my important mails.

  10. smiley wrote on December 26th, 2006 at 8:45 pm

    hi there

    finally i too got to login just now after a week.

    i dont see any email of my past … nor my address book.

    but the customer care - very grandly have sent one mail… stating… you may not see all or some of yr emails…

    is this the BETA EFFECT ?

    r they going to restore all…. or not ?

    the customer care.. of rediff… does not really care to answer.

    thanks
    cheers too

  11. Aseem N wrote on December 26th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    This failure certainly has got nothing to do with the Rediff Beta. Rediff Beta is just another interface to show your emails. I think Rediff’s mail servers failed, and its taken a week to restore most of them.

    I called up Rediff Customer Care, they asked me to call tomorrow after 8:00 AM. I am pissed off. I lost all my emails for the past 3-4 days. No new mail in my inbox. Not even an apology from Rediff that u guys seem to have got. If their incmoming mail service had gone down I dont think they have catched all those emails sent to our accounts during the period when their service was down :(



  12. smiley wrote on December 27th, 2006 at 8:32 am

    hey there,

    hmmm…..tracking the new mails of the past 1 week….!

    ….all the folders which i had kept of the past years…… all important mails…. have just vanished….!

    in my opinion it could be the new rediffmail which these guys are probably testing and changing to new servers because…. when i logged in …. it logged into the a/c with new rediffmail look, which i had not opted for earlier……. i am just hoping that they would restore the old emails……!

    thanks and cheers !

  13. marco wrote on December 29th, 2006 at 5:46 am

    I have been trying to log in to Rediffmail for about two days now . It won’t go into the log on page , I only get ‘page cannot be displayed’ . maybe it is my pc , but for other pages there is no such problem .When I try to get through the google search engine samething happened , and if I get the log on page and log in still the same result !What to do ? I should have changed before . Well it looks like I am going to go elsewhere now . But how can I let everyone know that I have a new address ? All my addresses are there .

  14. yatin vora wrote on January 1st, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    Rediffmail community,
    It is being horrowing exprince for last few days without our mail remained unopened. WhAt is thE prolem? My businesshas com to sand still without e maIls. Can anyone can help me?

    YATIN VORA

  15. Bharat Shah wrote on January 3rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    magic! the mails are back! took a week, but thankfully they didn’t disappear. Thought I would go and forward all of them to gmail, when this popped into my Inbox…running from pillar to post

    can you guys beleive it? Gmail Down?!!!

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/gmail-disaster-reports-of-mass-email-deletions/

  16. Bharat Shah wrote on January 3rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Quick add…moral of the story. Believe in one thing and pursue with it…The guys on the phone would never say when the mails will be restored, but didn’t say they are gone forever…atleast better than Google’s hands-off approach…once lost, lost forever?!!

    just wondering…where the heck can I store things…CD/Pen Drive??!! back to basics.

  17. Haldurai wrote on January 17th, 2007 at 11:03 am

    All my old mails are gone…not sure when they are going to restore…will they?. It looks like the most of your problems are solved..am I the only one left out? :(.

  18. santosh wrote on April 17th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Hi
    I have a problem with my rediffmail id.i cant see my mails for last 2 days.i can login but it is saying that “You have been inactive for quite sometime and
    your session has been terminated for security of your account.” dont know what to do.

    some important mails are going to come.Can any one suggest an solution.
    alternate email id san84kool@gmail.com

    Thanks

  19. diwakar wrote on September 20th, 2007 at 12:10 am

    i wish i could see this page earlier as i also lost my entire mailing list collected over a period of 4years ! and when i contacted their b’bay office they just expressed their inability to help it out any way.

  20. joseph wrote on November 22nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm

    I am not able to login to my email since 4 days and worried as this is getting me to a stand still position. anybody represented to rediffmail please suggest or please resolve the problem

  21. narinder singh wrote on March 25th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    i m not able to access my rediffmailbox. I hv some urgent mail to read out today. But my services temporarily unavailable

  22. narinder singh wrote on March 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    my service is temporarily unavailable. I hv to read out sm urgent mails. Cn anyone give me the immediate resolution

  23. girish wrote on March 25th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    service temporarily not available for my mailbox. plz provide me the immediate resolution.

  24. Yogesh wrote on March 31st, 2008 at 1:17 am

    Hi freiend it very easy to sign in your rediffmail

    Open opera browser

    & type address as follows

    http://mobile.rediff.com/rediffmail/

    & enjoy your mail if you want you can forward them to anoyhe email accounts




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