SoloMail has Stopped Working in "Preview" and "Send" mode

I don't know if this is the place to post this, but SoloMail is sending blank messages. It started recently: last week I was able to exchange emails with Ed Hudgins, but this week two emails to Roger Bissell were reset to blank (and received as blank by him)....

Phil
PS, I'd really prefer receiving messages on my regular email address anyway since it is easier to keep a history of what was sent and what one is replying to...another defect of SoloMail (either that or I don't want to incur the learning curve of a second email system, when Outlook Express works just fine).

Post 1

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 1:40pm

Okay, now SoloMail has apparently stopped notifying me of Unread incoming messages as well... It has decided that since I "insulted" it by criticizing its functioning processes in regard to " blanking out " outgoing messages, it was going to no longer "sanction me" and to banish me from participation its Incoming Messages Queue. Also, SoloMail in virus bot mode has begun to try to take over my address book and send out messages to everyone I know indicating that I am a serial evader and a slanderer who has been seen speaking to Barbara Branden, Nelson Mandela, and Bill Gates on several occasions. SoloMail, being a very morally upright piece of code, tried to only commandeer my address book for entries who are Objectivists, but instead it has sent repeated threats to my mother and to seven former employers and two ex-girlfriends claiming that I pick my nose, oversalt my popcorn, and have often failed to read my email for weeks at a time.

I've tried to apologize and to promise that I would let SoloMail approve all future emails even those sent by other software products such as those created by the evil Microsoft, but so far, being an intransigent piece of software, it has ignored my attempts at communication.

Post 2

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 1:41pm

SoloMail is causing my PC to vibrate and curse words to appear on my screen.

Post 3

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 1:55pm

Phil: "SoloMail is causing my PC to vibrate and curse words to appear on my screen."

It's not SoloMail that is causing that to happen, it's the people that read your posts.

;-)

George

Post 4

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 2:50pm

So I shouldn't complain because I'm only getting what I deserve.

Post 5

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 6:43pm

These words from Kipling's "If" are dedicated to Phil Coates:

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
...
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
...
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"

Stay the course, Phil. Their ship will capsize, and the truths you see and speak will endure.

REB

Post 6

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:54pm

The blank messages are because you are using Opera. The unread probably isn't working because you clicked the link twice, the first time it marked them read, the second time you looked at it and nothing was unread.

Post 7

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:56pm

You can click on the view conversation history link under a message in the unread view. You can view a conversation history by opening the message in one of your mail boxes. This only works if you use the Reply link to draft your mail. While you draft a reply, you can see the conversation history below your draft.

Post 8

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:31pm

Dean I'm not using Opera and never have.

(I'm on a Mac using Safari.) I write the message and hit preview and it blanks it out on the preview screen. Same thing if I don't preview. It blanks it out in front of me. Then I hit send and my recipient tells me he did indeed receive a blank message.

Post 9

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 5:40am

Phil, it's not a grand conspiracy of the Illuminati; I had the same problem using Safari and posted about it a week or so ago. I switched to Firefox and it worked fine. Pain in the ass, maybe, but mostly harmless.

Post 10

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 6:05am

Opera, Safari, same thing : ) (Actually, they are not the same, I made a mistake.)

Post 11

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 3:46pm

I'm going to the opera this weekend -- Wagner's "Parsifal." Does that mean my PC won't be working on Monday?

Post 12

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 4:21pm

Ed Hudgins: I'm going to the opera this weekend -- Wagner's "Parsifal."

You bastard, oh how I envy your weekend!

Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, the guardian of the Holy Grail; a wonderful opera, with music that is nearly beyond description, but I'll try:

Soulful, ethereal, monumental, melancholy, riveting....

Nothing compares to this, nothing, except perhaps ... Tristan, Gotterdammerung, and Lohengrin, which of course, were written by the same master.

To hell with all those screeching Italians; when it comes to opera, Wagner is incomparable.

Sincerely,

George, the inveterate Wagnerite, Cordero

Post 13

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:24pm

I, too, have had problems quite similar to Phil's profanity fiasco ...

My SoloMail has been acting up lately, too. This didn't used to be a problem, though. In the past, whenever my SoloMail had refused to perform any of my commands, I just typed in the phrase: "Who's your Daddy, Bitch?!" -- and then, like magic, the damn thing would do as I had said. But lately ... no. No ... lately the damn thing has taken to talking back to me -- and I think I'll need some technical assistance with that.

For instance, I wanted to send Ethan (our Editor) an email about my recent article on induction and, when I went to hit the "send" button, SoloMail said to me: "Hahahaha! You #$%-en fool! Do you think that the editor even CARES about what YOU have to say -- you pitiful, material ^%$#&$& [censored]???!!!

So then, when I tried to type in my usual: "Who's your Daddy, Bitch?!" -- then the damn thing responded back to me with something along the lines of it being totally in the realm of cyberspace, and therefore, completely untouchable by me, or any other (mere?) material being, and then it ended with the retort: "Hahahahahahaha!!! Mortal fool! You mortal freakin' FOOL!!!"

Now, I find this behavior (of the software) totally unacceptible, and I'd like some answers from the SoloMail IT Response Team. Surely, there is a protocol for this kind of "beligerent software," or something along those lines. I tried slapping my monitor "upside the tube," but that didn't work either. And, after shaking it in frustration, when I point a loaded gun at my monitor, the words: "YOU AIN'T GOT THE GUTS, SISSY BOY" appeared on my screen.

Desperately seeking technical advice,

Ed

:-)

Post 14

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:53pm

> I'm going to the opera this weekend -- Wagner's "Parsifal." Does that mean my PC won't be working on Monday? [Ed H]

It will only be parsifally working. But if you take any longer getting the conference schedule up on the website, I will fix it so the PC will go on permanent safari, fail to opera-ate Monday, and firefox....((whoops I have no relevant pun for that browser...I could perhaps do something with the computer catching fire and making fox into a four letter word, but that would be a stretch.))

Post 15

Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:59pm

"Who's your Daddy, Bitch?!"

Ed, that is a unix command and if you are on a Mac, it will only work if you are in Terminal mode, it will not work from inside email.

Ask Joe or Dean, because I think you have to use "Who's Yo' Mamma" if you are on Windows XP or "Who's Yo' Penguin?" on Linux.

(Ed, I hope you don't mind my correcting you on these programming issues: I realize I'm being very condescending.)

Post 16

Friday, February 24, 2006 - 3:00am

Condescending or not, Phil, I accept your (now constructive) criticism -- you have "shown me the way." When I typed: "
Who's your Mamma?" -- SoloMail prompty replied: "Why, you are, you friggin' beeyotch!" (and them it promptly complied with all of my commands).

Thanks,

Ed

:-)

Post 17

Friday, February 24, 2006 - 4:13am

A confused Cuban wrote: "To hell with all those screeching Italians; when it comes to opera, Wagner is incomparable."

Post 18

Friday, February 24, 2006 - 7:52am

George -- Glad to know there's another Wagnerite on RofR! The Prelude to Parsifal is indeed soulful, ethereal. The Transformation music is truly moving; I love when the music builds up and then simply stops and you hear nothing but the bells, followed the main theme again. And let's not forget lovely flowermaidens music. If I were Parsifal I'd give into temptation at that point; to hell with Christian morality!

Next month I might be seeing Das Rheingold, also at the Kennedy Center.

But I will admit here, publicly, on this tread, that I am Bi! By that I mean that I like both Wagner and the Italians -- Puccini, Verdi. La mia madre se chiama DiCamillo. Sono mezzo Italiano! Ciao!

(Edited by Ed Hudgins on 2/24, 7:54am)

Post 19

Friday, February 24, 2006 - 9:00am