MailASail News/Blog

The Royal Western Yacht Club of England will run its major transatlantic races, the Original Single-handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) and the Two-handed Transatlantic Race (TWOSTAR), again in 2022.

Sadly, the 2021 races have been postponed - see our next news item for the latest dates!

The Royal Western Yacht Club of England will run its major transatlantic races, the Original Single-handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) and the Two-handed Transatlantic Race (TWOSTAR), again in 2021.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.24, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

Its with great sadness that we have to report that Southampton Council has decided to cancel BOATS2020 only moments before it was due to open on Fri 11th Sept...

We have put a lot of work into getting everything ready for this new outdoor format with full social distancing regulations and so it's quite a blow that not only has it been cancelled, but cancelled only after everyone has invested some days setting up and preparing their stands.

Do please follow our news feed here and on Facebook as we ponder alternative ways to bring you news of our new product announcement and special offers and discounts...

• https://www.facebook.com/mailasail

Announcement:

• https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/director-of-public-health-tells-people-not-to-come-to-southampton/

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.23, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.22, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We've been working hard to enhance the features of our webmail during lockdown and have recently released another major update. Perhaps you've even already spotted the changes to our webmail? We are thrilled with the latest changes and think you will be too!

Ease of use remains our number one priority - the team at MailASail also use this new functionality and have been really pleased with the end result.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.21, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.20, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are excited to announce a huge upgrade to our Teleport-Weather service, which now offers a massive increase in the number of parameters and also features the major new GFS data model. This should give better predictive performance, more detailed forecasts and makes much more data available for download.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.19, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.18, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

Iridium prepay airtime - even better value for money from 1 May 2019

We are continuing to try and make the WebMail system a first class way to read your messages. We recently made it work much better on mobile/tablets, but customers found they needed to keep entering their username and password a lot. We've added a persistent login feature to alleviate this

The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides accurate timing information to many of our critical systems and devices.

Speed and security are vital aspects of our service and we are always looking for ways to improve both. Our latest update to our e-mail system delivers just that – enhanced security and increased speed. It is important that you always keep your software up to date to get full advantage of the latest improvements

We are making it even EASIER for you to setup your teleport-it email account in your favourite email program!

We now support the "autoconfig" and "autodiscover" standards and 'most' email programs should pull down the email program settings automatically while you are adding the new account.

Have you ever wanted to move certain emails automatically into a specific folder? Or redirect particular messages to a shore-based contact whilst you are sailing? Well, now you can!

We’ve implemented some great new filtering functionality to give you greater control over your inbox. Use folders and add filtering rules to automatically sort & file your incoming emails, set up automatic forwarding and more!

We are thrilled with the latest upgrades to our webmail facility and think you will be too! As always, ease of use remains our number one priority - the team at MailASail also use this new functionality and have been really pleased with the end result.

Our anti-spam filters got a HUGE boost recently and are now even more effective than ever!

After a soft launch and much testing during 2018, Iridium Certus is finally here!

On January 16 2019, Iridium officially announced the commercial launch of Iridium Certus, the world's only truly global broadband service, enabling mobile office functionality for deployed teams and two-way remote communications for assets, autonomous vehicles, trains, aircraft and ships at sea. This service is uniquely suited for the critical communication needs of teams operating beyond the reach of cellular coverage, including first responders and search and rescue organizations.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.16, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.15, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

MailASail Announced as Title Sponsor of AZAB 2019

The team at MailASail are hugely proud to announce our sponsorship of the esteemed Azores and Back Race 2019 (#MAZAB19).

The MailASail AZAB 2019 is a challenging international sailing race, testing drive, determination and skills over 2,400 miles of open ocean. Unlike any other international sailing race, the MailASail AZAB is unique in that the race finishes back at start line.

Important News for Iridium Handheld Phone Users

Iridium have announced a further change to their pre-paid airtime vouchers - the introduction of a new 75 minute voucher (minutes only), with immediate availability. Previously, the 75 minute voucher was only available to purchase as a combined voucher with line rental included.

Important News for Iridium Handheld Phone Users

Iridium have announced changes to their pre-paid airtime vouchers, effective 1st April 2018

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.14, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

aka: The challenges of "Roaming"

Think about this for a minute...

It’s quite normal to hear another spoken language if you travel abroad, so why is it different for your phone?

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.13, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

The 2016 edition of the ARC Atlantic crossing saw an interesting evolution with regards to social messaging and keeping in touch between other boats and to shore.

WhatsApp is a widely used social messaging app which arguably replaces SMS messaging between mobile phones. So why the surprise that we might use it on a yacht? Well, communications costs typically increase as you move away from home and so especially over satellite links, it’s important to use ultra efficient ways of communicating. Previously that has typically meant only simple text emails, and even then only with the assistance of specialist compression software such as teleport-mail from MailASail.

In preparation for the ARC kickoff we have been working hard on giving all of the Documentation a good "spring clean" and enhance.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.11, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.12, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.10, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

Inmarsat has announced significant changes to FleetBroadband airtime services which will take effect from February 2016.

The changes include the introduction of new services, end of life (EOL) for selected plans and closure to new activations on some existing plans (including the Small Vessel Plan).

Please find below an overview of the changes.

On 24th March 2015, Inmarsat will transition all BGAN (FleetBroadband, SwiftBroadband, and Land BGAN) and Classic Aero services from the current EMEA region satellite (I-4 F2) to the more powerful Alphasat satellite.

GSPS services were successfully transitioned to Alphasat in November 2013.

Iridium have updated the system time on their satellites as of 3rd March 2015. Iridium call this a "re-epoch". Since that point, some Iridium handsets, including the Iridium 9555, Iridium 9575 Extreme, Iridium 9505a and Iridium 9500) will display an incorrect system time (of 2008) until the user corrects the time by entering in a sequence of numbers on the handset. (Note, Iridium-Go is unaffected)

Note that this change should have no effect on the ability to make phone calls, send SMS messages or to make internet data calls. However, the time shown on the handset display will be reset to start counting from late 2007 and as you read this post will be showing a date in 2008 (or perhaps 2009 if you are reading this in 2016!). Additionally the Iridium 9575 GPS will fail to obtain a valid position and hence the Iridium 9575 tracking feature will stop working until the system time is reset as below.

Iridium have announced the "End of Life" for the Iridium Axcess Point product.

The Iridium AxcessPoint will be discontinued and Iridium have suggested replacement solutions for this product which include the Red-Box router from MailASail!

The Axcess Point is Iridium's previous generation product to allow phones/tablets/laptops to be easily hooked up to an Iridium handheld phone via wifi

Iridium will be performing a major upgrade to their Prepaid airtime platform between Thurs 5th June through Mon 9th June 2014. Due to the nature of the upgrade this will mean that no activations, or topups will be possible during that timeframe.

Please be proactive and ensure you have adequate airtime before Thursday 5th June.

Price increases are never a popular subject, however, Iridium have announced a snap price increase on the extremely popular Iridium Pilot terminals. The Pilot is the high speed satellite terminal, priced approximately 2-3x that of a standard handheld Iridium (approx £2,999+vat), but with over 50x the performance, at around 10% of the data cost. This has become a very popular terminal with leisure users in the recent few years

The price increase takes effect on Jan 31st 2014, so dealers have had just hours to buy up remaining stocks before the price increases! The price rise will be approx £400-1,000 (exactly increase is still unclear). It is worth reacting quickly!

Hot on the heels of the previous release, we are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.6, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

On Dec 17th 2013, Iridium will change the details of prepaid airtime expiry. The affect of these changes should generally be small and few customers will be materially affected, but it's important that we clearly communicate the effect of these changes so that customers are appropriately informed.

The substance of the change is that prepaid vouchers will no longer roll over indefinitely, but will now expire after a definite interval. In summary most prepaid vouchers will now have an explicit expiry of 3 years, with the 3K/5K min vouchers having an explicit 4 year expiry.

At MailASail, we try to support the widest range of ways you can access our mail servers. However, due to bugs in most versions of iPhone and IPad, and the increasing popularity of these devices, we need to REMOVE support for a way your device sends passwords to our servers.

Because this might cause problems we will do a test removal of this feature this Friday 1st Nov, turn the feature back on for the weekend and then off permanently starting Mon 4th Nov.

We are proud to announce release of firmware version 1.3, for the Red Box wireless router and bandwidth optimiser. Please update as soon as possible.

A critical firmware upgrade for Thrane & Thrane (Cobham SATCOM) SAILOR terminals is available to download.

The upgrade to version 1.16 for the SAILOR family terminals is required following enhancements to the Inmarsat network, scheduled for early June, which will impact the behaviour of IP handsets. Terminals not upgraded to version 1.16 or above will experience an issue when receiving calls through a Thrane & Thrane IP handset.

You can find the latest firmware here: Inmarsat FleetBroadband Firmware Upgrade

We are proud to announce the launch of teleport-proxy as a chrome extension on the chrome web store

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/teleport-proxy/kldcnpmgefdbldimfocfpmjffnkbdbln

MailASail will be closed for Spring May Bank Holiday 2013 from Friday 27/05/2013 until GMT 09h00 on Tuesday 28/05/2013

Happy Holidays

There is a MANDATORY firmware upgrade available for the IsatPhonePro handset. Owners must upgrade to firmware 5.3.0 (or later) before 31st December 2013 or the handset may have problems connecting to the network.

Links to the instructions to upgrade your firmware to version 5.3.0 (or later) can be found in our Inmarsat IsatPhonePro Support section

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