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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: silv3rLine on April 25, 2013, 04:52 pm

Title: tormail database issue
Post by: silv3rLine on April 25, 2013, 04:52 pm
From tormail I have received 'DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED!' for about 24 hours now. Anyone else have this issue?
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: Fah-Q on April 25, 2013, 04:56 pm
I'm having issues also
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: RodgerTheDodger on April 25, 2013, 05:34 pm
i'm also having issues with tormail, cant seem to get on the registration page. Been like that for atleast 2 weeks
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: mezzomixtor on April 25, 2013, 06:13 pm
yeah somebody already mentioned in another thread that tormail is down (again) :(

i'm also having issues with tormail, cant seem to get on the registration page. Been like that for atleast 2 weeks

i could get into my account till 2 days ago! maybe you had the wrong address? (jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion/)
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: Delta9ine on April 25, 2013, 07:25 pm
I haven't been able to access for 2 days now, it looks like it's overloaded. 

I'm a little surprised they don't have a donation link, it might help them upgrade their infrastructure a bit..
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: kyzersoze on April 25, 2013, 07:46 pm
Been down for a couple of days for me too (IMAP error).  There are a couple of emails I need to get to too.  Anyone have suggestions on a good alternative?
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: xollero on April 25, 2013, 09:52 pm
Been down for a couple of days for me too (IMAP error).  There are a couple of emails I need to get to too.  Anyone have suggestions on a good alternative?

Don't know about alternatives. fastmail was used by quite a few people for awhile, but it's been bought by Opera and has pretty crappy restrictions on free accounts now (all your data gets purged after a month or two of being inactive, for one).

As for just being able to get to your emails, tormail offers SMTP/IMAP/POP3 over TOR, so you can use an actual mail client to fetch and send mail through them, without needing to access through the web interface. Their help page explains how to set up Thunderbird to work with tormail. If you were doing that, you wouldn't be able to send anything with them down of course, but at least you'd have a local copy of your mail that you could access. Though depending on your level of paranoia / security hazard, you may not want to do this on a machine that LE may one day get their hands on without having everything heavily encrypted.
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: Lanius on April 25, 2013, 10:44 pm
Been down for a couple of days for me too (IMAP error).  There are a couple of emails I need to get to too.  Anyone have suggestions on a good alternative?
I've used both TM and Lavabit using a VPN side by side since the start and haven't had problems with lavabit yet so I would recommend adding it to your likely candidates.
Title: Re: tormail database issue
Post by: Acedia on April 25, 2013, 11:45 pm
I've been having IMAP errors the past few days as well.  I have been able to access my inbox sporadically - try every few hours.