Hushmail down?

[digger]

Just did a test from one EF mail account to another, and it demanded the key to decrypt at the receiving end. Good luck figuring out what it says in between.

Did you guys let Windows apply any fixes on the last Patch Tuesday?

 

[wellbilt]

im having trouble too
makes ya wonder

 

[matty420]

not working for me either

 

[Jon79]

shit used to happen all the time......dont freak out

 

[digger]

You guys who are getting "Hush encryption errors," look at the full headers of the mail. (If you can't connect at all, I'm betting your DNS has been hosed by a virus. We'll get to you in a minute.)

Received: from smtp3.hushmail.com (smtp3.hushmail.com [65.39.178.135])
	 by imap8.hushmail.com (Cyrus v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-8.1.RHEL4) with LMTPA;
	 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:05:56 +0000
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
Received: from mailserver6.hushmail.com (mailserver6.hushmail.com [65.39.178.56])
	by smtp3.hushmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP
	for <[email protected]>; Thu,  4 Oct 2007 15:05:55 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mailserver6.hushmail.com (Postfix, from userid 65534)
	id 994DCDA829; Thu,  4 Oct 2007 15:05:55 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:05:55 -0700
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: 
Subject: ****************
From: <********@elitefitness.com>
Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Message-Id: <*****************@mailserver6.hushmail.com>

See those "Received" lines? Notice how they all say "Hushmail" on one side or the other, sometimes both? That's what legit Hushmail looks like.

Now let's see one of yours. You can block out the subject and the addresses the way I did above.

 

[digger]

Okay, you guys who can't connect at all -- fire up notepad, open up C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (If you don't have a C:\Windows, find the equivalent, might be Windows NT or Win or WinXP)

It has at least one line and probably some comments:

# Microsoft sux rox
127.0.0.1       localhost

If it has more lines than that, you ought to have some idea where they came from.

Some viruses will try to push you away from antivirus sites so you can't get an update. If any of those lines mention hushmail.com, someone or something is trying to push you to a fake hushmail site.

That sounds VERY unlikely, by the way... all that would accomplish is setting up the situation in an old Doonesbury, back when Mike and Zonker were still in college and Zonker got busted for possession. Mike finds that their motel room has been bugged:

(Mike holds up the lamp with the badly-hidden microphone.)
Mike: "Gee, Zonker, this frameup must really be upsetting, huh?"
Zonker: "Yeah, Mike! You know me -- I only get high on LIFE! and AMERICA!"
Cop with headphones: "What the --?"
Next day's strip....
Judge: "Case dismissed. (To cop) What were you THINKING?! You had them in the bag! IN THE BAG!"

 

[needtogetarmy]

probably a server error. Hushmail, like other mail servers, occasionally have problems.

 

[muffinmaker]

fine for me

 

[crazyjoe]

Works fine for me.

 

[billybull]

Can someone answer this....I am a plat and I asssumed free emial came with plat...I tried to log into my account yesterday and It said it was deacitvated due to inactivity. Then It takes me to a page to sign back up and enter a credit card. I have checked my billing statements and I get charged religiously.

Questions:
Can it be deactivated even though you are plat?
Is the "re-sign up" for fishy?

Thanks
Billybull