The company that hosts my website suddenly decided they'd set up a webmail service for all their customers - so without any warning at all, they updated their DNS servers to make any domain they were hosting use the subdomain "webmail" point to their dedicated webmail service. Now you'd think that would be helpful... but it's not. I already had a working webmail service of my own set up, and what sub-domain was I using? Yes, you've guessed it. "webmail". Just like theirs.

So now if I try to go to MY webmail, I end up on their site instead! :( I can still get to my one, but only if I edit my HOSTS file and enter the IP address of the server that hosts it plus the domain name I am trying to get to - this is great for my own computers, but what if I want to get there from somewhere else... I'll have to put up with Fasthosts' own service. I suppose I could always set up mine on another sub-domain, but what one? It made sense to use "webmail" as it was descriptive, and I can't use "mail" as it's already being used by the POP3 server.

Bloody annoying it is!