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Sending mails with Orange taking forever?

Orange UK is my Internet Service Provider. In the last few months sending emails has become problematic with SMTP errors and mails taking literally 5+ minutes to leave the outbox. I’d tried changing SMTP servers a few times but with no luck. However, I’ve finally found one that seems to work with no problems. If [...]

TECH: 96% of an Orange e-mail account is spam…

If you have Orange as an ISP you will already know what an absolutely obscene amount of spam you get delivered to your inbox. I’ve moaned about it before here Well, a report mentioned here reveals that “…of the emails received by consumers who use Orange as their ISP, some 96 percent was spam” Orange [...]

TECH: Orange – get some working spam filters

Orange – for crying out loud get some working spam filters! I have 2 or 3 email accounts I use regularly but my Orange address (actually still a Freeserve one before Wanadoo and then Orange took it over) presents an avalanche of ‘RE: La Pha en Ligne’ emails EVERY SINGLE DAY – I’m talking 400 [...]

TECH: About those missing iPhones…

Having read reports here and here about the volume of iPhone’s that weren’t registered to ‘official’ networks I decided to find out just how difficult it was to unlock, activate and jailbreak a UK iPhone. The answer, as it turns out, is ‘surprisingly simple’. Having performed the process, I am surprised there aren’t actually a [...]