Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 21:32 -0700, Bill Case wrote:
> Thanks Ric;
> 
> That makes me feel a bit better.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:04:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?
> [snip]
> -- 
> Bill, I went ballistic and proceeded to rant to the list over
> Evolution
> doing the exact same thing to me. So, I went to Gmail and went into
> the
> tech support list and found dozens and dozens of emails over the same
> thing. Turned out it was gmails fault, their servers became broken
> probably with an upgrade of Windows <patooie!> and it stayed borked
> for
> days. You just might look into that angle and see if they are
> experiencing downtime. The worst was that gmail never posted publicly
> that they were down. If I had been paying for that service, then I
> would
> have gotten all morally indignant. 
> __
> 
> Ric, I did the same thing.  However, I went to rogers.com tech
> support.  Rogers.com is my local cable and a major Canadian
> communtications company and my ISP which provides  Yahoo! services
> with its name on it.  I double checked by trying the same thing in
> WindowsXP and Outlook.  Rogers admits that the problem is at their
> end. 
> 
> But it really makes me wonder when a companies the size of Rogers,
> Yahoo and google (gmail) all have the same problem with client email
> applications.

Maybe they upgraded from Fedora 2 to 6? 
Or selected "Install Everything"? <chuckles> 

I was fit-to-be-tied when Evolution couldn't connect and cussing like a
sailor. Even the dog left the room as I turned the room blue. By the
time I figured out it was gmail's fault, I was too exhausted to continue
a new verbally abusive thread. 

I think I will still switch to Thunderbird though. Evolution has pee'd
on my shoes once too often, while calling it rain. Pine was better than
this. I miss those days when I could understand at least half of what
was going on. FTP wuz FTP and telnet was more or less trusted. 

Ha! I sound like Garrison Keillor, where "all the women were strong, the
men good looking and the kids above average." I pray they are all using
Linix as well. If so, then Minnesota would be nirvana. Ric


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