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9 Mar 2018, 02:07 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Problem with Lycos Mail
I have a free Lycos Mail account that I created a long long time ago.
For the past couple of days, I'm having trouble logging into their webmail service. I go to mail.lycos.com, give my username/password, which seemingly are accepted, and then I'm redirected after several seconds to webmail.lycos.com which gives the error message "login failed". Further login attempts at webmail.lycos.com always give login failed. If I now go to mail.lycos.com, I'm redirected (without me having to give any username,password) to webmail.lycos.com If (after clearing all cookies) I give a wrong password at mail.lycos.com, there is no redirection, and I *immediately* get the message "username-password do not match". |
9 Mar 2018, 09:17 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sound Beach, N.Y.
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I believe that it will log you in if you use the mail tab on the LYCOS home page.
Had the same issue a while back. |
16 Mar 2018, 04:24 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Good to know Lycos still exists. I remember them vaguely as a free webhost too, back before Wordpress.com, Wix.com and Weebly came into existance. I haven't seen anything Lycos related in ages.
Do they still accept new subscriptions for email? Are you satisfied with their service? |
16 Mar 2018, 09:10 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sound Beach, N.Y.
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I believe LYCOS allows Paid only though maybe worth a try to sign up a free account.
They have a modified Roundcube webmail w./ calendar and a basic File Storage. Have used it for a few online forums etc. No issues at all with it. The ownership of LYCOS is now with an India based online advertising outfit, Brightcom which appears to be highly profitable. |
20 Mar 2018, 01:23 AM | #5 |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I think they still accept new free accounts, but only from certain countries.
I've still been unable to go to my mail account, and I'm not the only one: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/mail.lycos.com.html (Look at their comments section) It's been like 2 weeks, and no access. Clicking the mail tab on the lycos page does not help. Their email interface had improved from their early days. |
5 May 2018, 12:40 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 7
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I've been having intermittent problems with lycos for almost a year. I'm not even sure if Lycos hosts their own email server any more. It's clearly just RoundCube barely even modified. Honestly, I'm amazed that Lycos, Juno and Excite! even continue to bother maintaining email. I'm glad they do, because my lycos and excite accounts are over 10 years old. But that's also a problem within itself.
I used to have my lycos account on my business card. But no one knows what Lycos is any more. I had several people ask me if Lycos was my company.Now I just have an uglier gmail account name, because I don't think it's helpful for people to be distracted by my email provider |
15 May 2018, 11:06 AM | #7 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Philippines
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I have a Lycos account, but not for long.
Received this on April 28, 2018, the second of two, the first on April 7, 2018 Quote:
Another account lost to paid. Oh and the instructions to download stored messages was worthless. Not that I had anything other than the two messages to download. |
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