Aliette de Bodard ([info]aliettedb) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 20:29:00
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Current mood: frustrated

Grr...
Ten hours of fiddling with my email account to discover why mails were being "eaten", and all that to discover that my provider suppressed some "highly likely spams" by default.

Guess what... Among those "highly likely spams" was my copy of a novel query (the one I sent to myself, to retain in my files). Apparently, putting too much text in the body of a mail can be interpreted as spam...

*goes bang her head against a wall*


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[info]mariness
2008-05-03 06:36 pm UTC (link)
:: nods in frustrated agreement ::

Do you realize how many query letters I've had to send out because my server ATE a rejection/acceptance slip? I mean, on the one hand, yay for the ease of email, and on the other hand, it makes me look so unprofessional....

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[info]mariness
2008-05-03 06:37 pm UTC (link)
And by ate, I mean "assumed was spam." In theory, it's not eating any spam now, shoving it into a folder instead, but...auugh!

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-03 06:41 pm UTC (link)
Wow, you have a smart one. Mine erases it before it reaches my eyes (which is cool, but not very helpful when stuff gets eaten).

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-03 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'd assumed it was being smart on its own, because it was tagging part of my messages as spam--so I thought it wasn't doing any erasing. But then I saw that it was also erasing mails which it thought had 99.99% chance of being spam... (and being so totally wrong about it).

I hope it behaves now.

(and yeah, it does make one look bad)

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[info]marshall_payne
2008-05-03 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Sorry to hear about that. I've been really happy with my gmail account since I switched over. I have yahoo and mail.com too (actually the good baron has the mail.com one *hee*), but gmail is my principal addy.

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-04 12:57 pm UTC (link)
I use my university's mail server, but it's sometimes giving me grief. I like being able to redirect it where I want, though.
I do have a gmail account; it's just that I never ever use it.

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[info]melissajm
2008-05-03 07:11 pm UTC (link)
I suspect mine's been doing the same thing.

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-04 12:57 pm UTC (link)
:-(
This is annoying, isn't it?

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[info]melissajm
2008-05-04 08:09 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. I'm afraid I might be irritating a certain agent, because as far as I know he's sent me something 2 or 3 times, but I haven't got it.

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-04 08:15 pm UTC (link)
:-( I'm worrying about whether I missed answers...
Can't you give that agent another address?

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[info]melissajm
2008-05-04 08:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm getting e-mails, just not the attachment I expected to be with them.

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[info]patesden
2008-05-03 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Mine server changed something and I ended up sending out a bunch of queries that lost all formatting. Of course, I only noticed it on the last query and as the email zipped off into cyberspace. One agent got about a half dozen of the same unformatted query from me thanks to my (ex)server. I never heard back from that agent.

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[info]aliettedb
2008-05-04 12:57 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, that sucks. At least you got a new server, but still...

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