Outlook express decided to compact my emails and now most of the older emails are gone. Where did they go and how do I get them back. I know, i hate Outlook express but it is on the work computer. Any help would be most appreciated.
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kinda off topic...but murp can you tell me why i went away for a week and when i came back the board no longer notifies me via email of threads replies
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 06, 2006, 10:53:40 AM
kinda off topic...but murp can you tell me why i went away for a week and when i came back the board no longer notifies me via email of threads replies
It was hoping you stayed away??
highly unlikely
in fact i got a welcome back message in my PM box.....its the emails that arent working
IGY... you have close to 7,500 posts here. Why would you want e-mails for thread replies??
That's an awful lot of e-mails to sort through.
no idea. maybe Sus or GF knows.
IGY... you have close to 7,500 posts here. Why would you want e-mails for thread replies??
That's an awful lot of e-mails to sort through.
because at work i email more than anything else...and rather than come back to the board all the time i can just get the email updates as im always refreshing it
Outlook Express is lousy, but if it's any consolation...I'm using Lotus Notes at work, and omg it farging blows. Slowtus, we call it.
Yeah, I pretty much hate Lotus Notes.
I hate Lotus software more than all of you combined. Trust me.
My IT guy just told me this morning we use Lotus because it's supposedly virus proof, being a database rather than email. Is this true, and what the hell does that mean anyway?
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 06, 2006, 12:18:58 PM
I hate Lotus software more than all of you combined. Trust me.
Eh, I don't know. I've had to use this crap in a number of jobs, and I even had to build a bastichized HTML/Lotus-based Intranet for one MAJOR company. Red Box of Death galore right there. And all of the retarded databases...horrors.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on June 06, 2006, 12:21:44 PM
My IT guy just told me this morning we use Lotus because it's supposedly virus proof, being a database rather than email. Is this true, and what the hell does that mean anyway?
That's sort of Bullshtein.
Slowtus! Hilarious!!!11!1
Quote from: Zanshin on June 06, 2006, 12:31:21 PM
Quote from: MadMarchHare on June 06, 2006, 12:21:44 PM
My IT guy just told me this morning we use Lotus because it's supposedly virus proof, being a database rather than email. Is this true, and what the hell does that mean anyway?
That's sort of Bullshtein.
Yeah look up the sequel slammer virus. Took advantage of SQL data base. That said the application is so bad there is no need to write a virus for it as it is practically a virus in and of itself...
MURP, I have no idea what happened to your e-mails. It might depend on how you have OE set. It's quite possible that it totally deleted the old mail.
IGY, unfortunately there are way too many things between this board and your computer to really know what's going on with notification. I'll check around if G_F doesn't get to it, but I can't promise anything for sure.
In answer is most assuredly gremlins.
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IGY, unfortunately there are way too many things between this board and your computer to really know what's going on with notification. I'll check around if G_F doesn't get to it, but I can't promise anything for sure.
thanks g
it just went away perhaps it will just come back
Maybe...and if you're lucky, you won't get a flood of e-mails. :-X
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 06, 2006, 10:53:40 AM
kinda off topic...but murp can you tell me why i went away for a week and when i came back the board no longer notifies me via email of threads replies
your email server may have blocked the address and considered it spam considering if you didnt access it for 10 days, there could have been hundreds of emails that could have exceeded your given mailbox space.
That's what I'm thinking.
BTW, I just turned on notification for me, and I just got the notification e-mail. So the board is most likely working properly. IGY, you should check your netstuff at work...like Windspan says, they're possibly filtering it out.
i use my personal comcast account for this board....is there something within that i should look at?
Now do you get your e-mail from your Comcast account? Do you use a specific mail program, or do you check your e-mail via the Comcast website?
i sign in via comcast.net
Check your spam settings:
https://acctmgt.comcast.net/Comcast/AcctMgt/changespamfilter.cmd
You obviously still want the spam filter on, but if you have it set to not save a copy, and Comcast is filtering it, it's probably getting deleted rather than being put in the filtered mail folder.
well after spending quite some time looking at how to extract and import the compacted files it seems the files really dont exist anymore. OH well. I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird. Hope that one is better.