Email suckitude
Jul. 20th, 2006 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuWay back in the day (he said in a quavery old-man voice), I used to use Forte Agent as my email/news client of choice. I liked that program a lot. My wife, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy, still swears by it. But I moved from Win 98 to Linux 9.0, then 9.3, then finally to 10.1.
Agent isn't available for Linux. Oh, you could try to run it under a Window emulator I suppose, if you wanted to badly enough. But, hell, if you're gonna run Windows emulators so you can run Windows programs, why bother with another OS in the first place? So I looked around and tried a few programs. I use Mozilla, then later Firefox. But while these are wonderful browsers, they aren't such nifty email clients. I tried Evolution too, briefly. And Thunderbird. None of them was anything like as useful to me as Agent.
Eventually I settled a program called Gemini. I've been using it for almost as long as I've been running Linux on my computer. It handles mail, usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. That last is important because I'm subscribed to about a dozen mailing lists. Having the numerous emails I get daily automatically sorted into mailing list folders is a nice feature.
But tonight I'm using Thunderbird again. Why? Because after spending almost a week trying to email a couple of documents to someone, someone who never ever received them, I finally discovered that Gemini stopped sending out my emails about a month ago. They've been accumulating in the Outbox, instead of loitering there momentarily before being sent on their way and transferred to the Sent Mail folder.
Why? I have no fucking idea. Why didn't I notice sooner? Because Gemini has continued receiving emails just fine. And because while I receive a lot of emails I don't send that many. Most of the messages I send are posts or comments on livejournal and other web forums. They weren't going thru Gemini so I never realized my emails weren't getting out.
I've tried everything I can think of to correct problem, to no avail. I thought maybe I'd configured the outgoing mail settings wrong when I recently reinstalled all my software--but when I set up Thunderbird with all the same settings, it worked perfectly. I've emailed the support folks for Gemini, so maybe they'll be able to suggest a fix. In the mean time, though, I'm using Thunderbird.
snippy, still swears by it. But I moved from Win 98 to Linux 9.0, then 9.3, then finally to 10.1.Agent isn't available for Linux. Oh, you could try to run it under a Window emulator I suppose, if you wanted to badly enough. But, hell, if you're gonna run Windows emulators so you can run Windows programs, why bother with another OS in the first place? So I looked around and tried a few programs. I use Mozilla, then later Firefox. But while these are wonderful browsers, they aren't such nifty email clients. I tried Evolution too, briefly. And Thunderbird. None of them was anything like as useful to me as Agent.
Eventually I settled a program called Gemini. I've been using it for almost as long as I've been running Linux on my computer. It handles mail, usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. That last is important because I'm subscribed to about a dozen mailing lists. Having the numerous emails I get daily automatically sorted into mailing list folders is a nice feature.
But tonight I'm using Thunderbird again. Why? Because after spending almost a week trying to email a couple of documents to someone, someone who never ever received them, I finally discovered that Gemini stopped sending out my emails about a month ago. They've been accumulating in the Outbox, instead of loitering there momentarily before being sent on their way and transferred to the Sent Mail folder.
Why? I have no fucking idea. Why didn't I notice sooner? Because Gemini has continued receiving emails just fine. And because while I receive a lot of emails I don't send that many. Most of the messages I send are posts or comments on livejournal and other web forums. They weren't going thru Gemini so I never realized my emails weren't getting out.
I've tried everything I can think of to correct problem, to no avail. I thought maybe I'd configured the outgoing mail settings wrong when I recently reinstalled all my software--but when I set up Thunderbird with all the same settings, it worked perfectly. I've emailed the support folks for Gemini, so maybe they'll be able to suggest a fix. In the mean time, though, I'm using Thunderbird.
