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I discovered tonight that an email address on a domain we own has had forwarding stopped, I phoned the call centre tonight to see what was going on and the first chap I spoke to was rather rude in the fact that he said that "Freeola " would have done house keeping on the domain and removed forwarding!
I asked on what authority did they do that? he said they can do what they please!
My second call the agent was more receptive and actually showed some concern on this matter, hence my email to you tonight.
I find it shocking that as we bought the domain and pay £25 odd a month for the hosting that we cant do our own house keeping, he stated that they would have sent an email to the forwarding address and to the domain owner, but neither received this email, as as no one replied Freeola assumed wrongly that the forwarding email address was not in use.
As this email was for the treasurer of the riding for the Disabled we feel that your actions could have cost this charity a lot of lost money in donations or what ever!, please can you assure me that in future you will let me as webmaster do my own house keeping on the domains that we own, fair enough you can look after your Freeola 500 email address, they are yours after all, but my domains should be my concern.
It would appear that forwarding has been off since about April or May, about the same time we did get an email from you when a server went down and we had to re upload the web site, would that have caused this?
can you also clarify how house keeping is done? as a look in to my wife account shows many dormant Freeola 500 emails that clearly you own but have chosen NOT to housekeep, or delete yet you did delete a very important ACTIVE non freeola address.
I look forward to your reply
Kind Regards
Mr Well upset at Freeola
> Hmmm... has already pointed out ways we can improve this,
> which we took on board and have implemented almost immediately.
Hi Warhunt.
That sounds good :¬)
Can you say how things will now work?
Thanks.
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
If you want an official response, send a letter. This is because this is the procedure we have agreed upon (regulations etc), and use generally. It has nothing to do with "chance of being received" etc at all.
We have improved methods of customers being contacted etc for future events based on user (and Hmmm....) comments so that we can better inform the customer who manages the address as well as the owner of the recipient address.
I notice you have been contacted by a colleague in response to your email so I would suggest you continue this method of correspondence.
Thanks for your reply and I have had a reply from the email I sent also, I take on board what your saying and I do understand, ...BUtT I still stand by what I said and lets face it you shot yourself in the foot at the end of your message on this forum!
You say (probably rightly so) "On a slight off note. Generally complaints must all be submitted
> in writing, as this is standard company procedure. We can not
> guarantee an official response if you have sent an email to a
> colleagues personal email address"
This as I see it is correct as EMAIL is not to be trusted and can get lost or not delivered! so in writing to you it would be official and received (am i right in my thinking?)
Yet you (Freeola) are happy to expect me to be emailed about this issue, so maybe you should confirm your email about removal of forwarding with a letter to the registered keeper? then if no reply then fair enough stop it, at least then I cant deny that I never got the letter, one thing for sure though in this case neither my wife nor the treasarure of the RDA got any email from Freeola
I think that sums it up, one rule for freeola and another for the customer?
would she be able to log in directly to only her email webmail from a non freeola line with out paying £3 a month for email freedom?
Digi
Warhunt wrote:
> Let me apologise first off if you feel one of the colleagues in
> the office has been abrubt or rude in any way. I believe our
> general reputation with customer service shows this is not common
> place, and it is displeasing to hear of this incident.
>
> To explain about email forwarding housekeeping:
>
> The systems run this process on a semi-regular basis, I believe
> choosing a section of sr numbers to process. This selection would
> include number of email addresses which have been using
> forwarding for a set period of time.
>
> As with all most things in IT, some people will not maintain
> their account after creating it, leaving their addresses
> forwarding when they;
>
> a) Don't have the address anymore
> b) Don't really monitor the receiving address
> c) Don't maintain (or require) the forwarding address
>
> This causes problems for ourselves, as if forwarding is left on
> without really being used there is a chance that our servers will
> be marked as spam or effected detrimentally in other ways by the
> recipients hosts (if the address no longer exists etc).
>
> This effects all our users and is the primary reason we run
> this procedure. This is why it is necessary, among other in
> house reasons, to check that users are still using the
> forwarding.
>
> I can not stress enough that users are sent notifications,
> and only if we do not receive a response, do we take any
> action. The notification is very simple, and only requires a
> minute of time (if that), so we do try and keep it as easy as we
> can.
>
> Hmmm... has already pointed out ways we can improve this,
> which we took on board and have implemented almost immediately.
>
>
> Whilst we appreciate that the domain registration is your own,
> the mail servers are run by Freeola and, whilst my colleague may
> have been able to word it in a more "friendly" way, we
> need to (and will) make these changes or procedures when
> required.
>
> I mention semi-regular earlier because of this very point. we
> try and do them only when required to maintain general
> service
>
> On a slight off note. Generally complaints must all be submitted
> in writing, as this is standard company procedure. We can not
> guarantee an official response if you have sent an email to a
> colleagues personal email address, which is what I imagine you
> have done.
To explain about email forwarding housekeeping:
The systems run this process on a semi-regular basis, I believe choosing a section of sr numbers to process. This selection would include number of email addresses which have been using forwarding for a set period of time.
As with all most things in IT, some people will not maintain their account after creating it, leaving their addresses forwarding when they;
a) Don't have the address anymore
b) Don't really monitor the receiving address
c) Don't maintain (or require) the forwarding address
This causes problems for ourselves, as if forwarding is left on without really being used there is a chance that our servers will be marked as spam or effected detrimentally in other ways by the recipients hosts (if the address no longer exists etc).
This effects all our users and is the primary reason we run this procedure. This is why it is necessary, among other in house reasons, to check that users are still using the forwarding.
I can not stress enough that users are sent notifications, and only if we do not receive a response, do we take any action. The notification is very simple, and only requires a minute of time (if that), so we do try and keep it as easy as we can.
Hmmm... has already pointed out ways we can improve this, which we took on board and have implemented almost immediately.
Whilst we appreciate that the domain registration is your own, the mail servers are run by Freeola and, whilst my colleague may have been able to word it in a more "friendly" way, we need to (and will) make these changes or procedures when required.
I mention semi-regular earlier because of this very point. we try and do them only when required to maintain general service
On a slight off note. Generally complaints must all be submitted in writing, as this is standard company procedure. We can not guarantee an official response if you have sent an email to a colleagues personal email address, which is what I imagine you have done.
The second agent asked me to write in with my complaint, but as I said in this age of technology surely the head of IT support must have an email address, so I have emailed him, lets hope he sees where I am coming from,
Digi
Hmmm... wrote:
> Hi Digi,
> Sorry to hear you've been caught out.
> I was also caught out when Freeola performed
> house keeping the other month.
>
> I'll be interested in Freeola's reply as it caused me quite a
> lot of pain :¬(
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
Sorry to hear you've been caught out.
I was also caught out when Freeola performed email house keeping the other month.
I'll be interested in Freeola's reply as it caused me quite a lot of pain :¬(
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
I discovered tonight that an email address on a domain we own has had forwarding stopped, I phoned the call centre tonight to see what was going on and the first chap I spoke to was rather rude in the fact that he said that "Freeola " would have done house keeping on the domain and removed forwarding!
I asked on what authority did they do that? he said they can do what they please!
My second call the agent was more receptive and actually showed some concern on this matter, hence my email to you tonight.
I find it shocking that as we bought the domain and pay £25 odd a month for the hosting that we cant do our own house keeping, he stated that they would have sent an email to the forwarding address and to the domain owner, but neither received this email, as as no one replied Freeola assumed wrongly that the forwarding email address was not in use.
As this email was for the treasurer of the riding for the Disabled we feel that your actions could have cost this charity a lot of lost money in donations or what ever!, please can you assure me that in future you will let me as webmaster do my own house keeping on the domains that we own, fair enough you can look after your Freeola 500 email address, they are yours after all, but my domains should be my concern.
It would appear that forwarding has been off since about April or May, about the same time we did get an email from you when a server went down and we had to re upload the web site, would that have caused this?
can you also clarify how house keeping is done? as a look in to my wife account shows many dormant Freeola 500 emails that clearly you own but have chosen NOT to housekeep, or delete yet you did delete a very important ACTIVE non freeola address.
I look forward to your reply
Kind Regards
Mr Well upset at Freeola