Today is the 30 July 2010. our network status is: No Known Issues
20/07/10 Hoax Email
We are currently aware of a hoax email being sent to our customers.
This email is from a user named "FARMSIDE Webmail Services" Please ignore this email, we will never ask for your credentials via email.
Dear FARMSIDE User,
To increase your storage capacity and the functions, you are required to
reply to this mail and enter your
Username and Password in the space provided below, due to the fact that we
are about to carry out maintenance and
incensement of storage capacity on our webmail services/account within the
next 72 hours.
Failure to do this within 72hours will immediately render your email account
deactivated from our database.
FARMSIDE USERNAME : ( )
PASSWORD: ( )
Your Account can also be verified via our webmail Link before the
informations are sent.
Thank you for using FARMSIDE Webmail Service.
Your's in Service,
FARMSIDE Webmail Services
Historial Events
15/07/10 Scheduled Outage
Start: 15th July 2010 01:00am NZST.
End: 15th July 2010 05:00am NZST.
There may be brief disruptions to myfarmside.co.nz due to database maintenance.
Area Affected: World Wide.
Maintenance Duration: 4 hours
16/06/10 Scheduled Outage
Start: 16th June 2010 11:00pm NZST.
End: 17th June 2010 01:00am NZST.
There may be brief disruptions to myfarmside.co.nz due to database maintenance.
Area Affected: World Wide.
Maintenance Duration: 2 hours
03/05/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
Dear subscribers.
This message is from the Farmside Email Administrator IT Service to all our
email account
subscribers.You are to provide to us the below information to revalidate
your account due to spam and to
Farmsidegrade the new 2010 spam version.
Notice:Your Farmside Email account will be expired after a week, if you do
not revalidate or Farmsidedate
your account. Please do co-operate with us so we can serve you better,
contact the adminstrator!!****
User Name:
Password:
Confirm Your Password:
Alternative Email :
Thank You.
Farmside Email Administrator
Warning Code :ID67565434.
27/04/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
Dear Customer,
This e-mail was send by farmside.co.nz to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account.We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else. Please run this file and Follow instructions:
http://mailservicessss.bravehost.com/settings.exe
(C) farmside.co.nz
17/03/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farmside Webmail syatem"
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:00 AM
Subject: re-confirm your webmail accountDear farmside.co.nz webmail Account User,
We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our network due to the
fact that it has been noticed that some subscribers are introducing a
strong virus into our network. We are about scanning through our
database so as to disable this virus and this might lead to
deactivation of existing webmail account.
In order to continue using our services you are require to update and
re-confirm your webmail account with the details requested below:
Nationality:
Date of Birth:
Username:
Password:
Note that, failure to comply with this instruction will immediately
render your account deactivated from our database after the database
scan in the next twenty four hours.
Hoping to serve you better,
Farmside Webmail syatem.
14/01/10 Sheduled Outage
Date: 15th Jan 2010 and 16th Jan 2010
Time: 04:00 to 06:00 NZDT.
There may be brief disruptions to Satellite and Dialup services due to upstream provider maintenance.
Area Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 2 hours
11/01/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
From:
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[mailto:
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]
Sent: Saturday, 9 January 2010 11:23 a.m.
To:
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Subject: For the owner of the
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mailbox
Dear user of the farmsideltd.co.nz mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
Best regards, farmsideltd.co.nz Technical Support.
Message-ID#E2KY13H2TPLNBPEZ1W6XYNTV3H
08/10/10 Sheduled Outage
IPSTAR will be performing an emergency maintenance work on the AKL Gateway. This maintenance work will result in terminals not being able to log on. Once the maintenance is complete, all terminals will be able to log on.
The details on the emergency maintenance timeframes are listed as below.
Start Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Start Time: 00:30 AM (NZ Time)
Finish Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Finish Time: 03:30 AM (NZ Time)
Services Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 3 hours
03/12/09 12:30pm Heavy rain in Auckland
There is very heavy rain in Auckland causing some interference with some satellite customers
24/11/09 8:30 am The power is out in the main office In Timaru
All power is out in Timaru. This affects the phone system and our customer support centre. Some legacy Web hosting customers may also be affected. It is expected to be resolved around 11am.
24/11/09 9:30 am The power is back on in the main office In Timaru
12/11/09 8:30 am Email login issues
Some customers are reporting e-mail issues while attempting to login. We ask that users check they they are using their full e-mail address as their username in their e-mail setting eg ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' and not just 'fred'.
12/11/09 1:00 am Scheduled maintenance (Information)
On Thursday the 12th at 1am various maintenance events have been scheduled. This includes E-mail server relocation and database relocation. Both E-mail and authentication services may be briefly affected.
20/10/09 1:00 pmPhishing email (Information)
The following email may be sent to Farmside mail users, this is a hoax email. We are aware of this email, please delete this email and do not reply to it or click on the link.
- Original Message -
From: tech-admin
Sent: 20 October 2009 1:45 a.m.
To:
Subject: Mail server upgrade
Attention!
On October 22, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.
http://updates.farmsideltd.co.nz.secure.usaadmin.net/core/id=712890809320-patch9025347.aspx
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.
System Administrator
10/01/10 8:30am E-mail address Harvest Attempt
Over the weekend a number of e-mail addresses where sent and e-mail that claims to be from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and attempting to get customers to click on a link to upgrade their e-mail security settings. This e-mail is a fake e-mail, it was not from Farmside and you should not click on the link.
