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LeChat — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:59:03 +0000

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Mail is not being received by some recipients sometimes and we receive no failure message

Iseriestek — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:18:03 +0000

Greetings, we have a single mail domain with two mail hosting providers and two ISPs. We set it up this way so that if an ISP or Mail provider has issues we can fail over to the other. We use a sonicwall for this function.
Users have OE6 clients with two accounts configured with the same email address but different smtp & pop settings.
Occasionally we send mail out and it is not received but we get no failure notice. If the user switches to the other account and sends to the same recipient they may receive it fine.
At first we thought we were going into a spam bucket on the recipients end but other users here can send to the same recipients fine while others experience the lost mail issue.
We additionally discovered that mail sent through the web based user accounts that fail from the clients go through fine.
Any thoughts?

Checking Email from Command Prompt

Techy1984 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:49:01 +0000

I am aware of many applications that allow you to send email from the command line. My favorite is ‘sendEmail’ which I use in batch files and ‘.exe’s’ to retrieve logs and files from my client’s computers when trouble shooting their software.

What I cannot find is a way to check email or receive notices through a command line utility. I would like to have a way to at least check a designated inbox or even receive notice of an incoming email.

Any ideas on how this can be done?

Thanks in advance.

Mark as read when opened

Frenchjam — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:56:40 +0000

In Thunderbird 2.something I disabled the automatic mark as read when the message is displayed in the preview window, but the message would still get marked as read when I double click to open the message in a window. In 3.0 I double click to open the message in a tab and when I close the tab the message is still marked as ‘unread’. Is there a way to have the message marked as ‘read’ when it has been opened in a tab?

mac mail viewing

AHZZ — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:25:32 +0000

There used to be a bar right below the messages and each mail would display instead of having to double click on the individual email to read it. Somehow it went away. Is there a way to set that back to be able to view the message as well as the incoming list of emails?

Email changes from Unread to Read automatically

Potential — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:34:37 +0000

I have a weird problem with one email account (mine) that I feel is exchange related and not client related. When I receive new emails the system marks them as read after about 4 minutes. This happens on the server because all new emails older than 4 or so minutes are already marked as read when I open the client. I have NO rules set, No options set (tools >options >other >reading pane) and I have the reading pane turned Off. I’ve blown away my Outlook profile, Outlook client, Office 2007 suite and reloaded – still the same problem. I’ve used another pc and same results. I do have a mobile device but it has been completly powered Off since this started yesterday morning. If I log onto OWA the same issue is there. Anyone else seen this?

How can I attach note/comment to Outlook emails?

Dav11 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:47:25 +0000

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SMTP users

Stark99 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:58:01 +0000

Do all users need their own directory entry to send emails. Is there a way for anyone to signon to the system and use a CL program that sends an email message by SNDDST.

Outbox woes: User exceeded the limit and can not send.

Gedigd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:09:26 +0000

How to clear out or remove messages from the Outbox properly? user exceeded the limit can not send.

“Stuck Email”

Coop — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:54:20 +0000

I am using exchange 2003
Outlook 2003 in exchange mode.

A few weeks ago we had a hard drive crash and had to repair our exchange database because it corrupted. We did a data repair of the datafile, not a backup recovery.

Now I have one user who has one email that she cannot delete!
She is a “clean” inbox freak so its driving her nuts, and thus she drives me nuts.

when she attempts to delete she gets the error message

“The item could not be deleted. It was either moved or already deleted, or access was denied”

I have tried the following

1. Outlook is not in chached mode.
2. attempted to delete in OWA
3. attempted to move file first
4. attemped to delete it with a group of other messages.

Now I am stuck, I cannot find a way to get rid of this email?
Is there a way to delete a single message directly from the exchange server?

Thanks