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E-mail stuck in Outbox

Monday, 31. August 2009, 10:36:14

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For the past couple of months I've been annoyed with Opera e-mail sometimes being stuck in Outbox, at the "Authenticating" stage. Sometimes. Hence the annoyance. Sometimes it works fine for days. And sometimes it doesn't. I don't know what triggers it. I wish I knew :) Assuredly I can't be the only one experiencing this! I've looked and searched the Web, forums, Opera knowledge base and support pages.

I'm using Opera 9.64 on mac OS X 10.5.7 and outgoing e-mail talks to an SMTP server over TLS.

I just found a workaround that is not very satisfactory, but good enough so long as it does the trick: disconnect/reconnect wi-fi, try again, worky. <sigh />

I also found that even if the stuck message is removed from the Outbox, Opera will eventually deliver it. Sadly the original timestamp is not kept. So if I found another way to send that message, people will still receive it again. Later. <re-sigh />

I changed how Opera handles e-mail a couple of months ago, so that might be it. I used to ssh to a machine and Opera talked to localhost to pop and send.

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SFR.fr momentary blunder

Thursday, 2. August 2007, 20:35:15

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I'm annoyed at SFR (cell phone carrier) everytime I receive spam by SMS or MMS, so I logged onto my account on their website today in order to check once and for all if I could specifically request to not receive their promotional SMSs or MMSs.

I didn't recognise my subscription type. And my latest invoice was incredibly expensive. "Leafing" through it, I was astonished that this latest invoice had 72 pages (when usually it's 2 or 3)!

I was struck to realise I was looking at somebody else's data. Her personal information, her banking information, her invoices for the past 6 months. I could browse it all and also change things. The top of each page all had "Coralie Mercier", though, next to a link to log out.

I called them on the phone to let them know. I don't think the guy really understood how wrong it was. He said he'd lodge a complaint. He made me wait a couple minutes while doing so and then said he would report I had somebody else's invoice on screen instead of mine. I corrected him that I had access to all of this person's data and options. He said "ah. ok". And then added, almost robot-like, that it usually takes 5 business days for complaints to be processed. He thanked me for my call and wished me a good day.

It's fixed now, I just checked.

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4tf?

Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 03:09:49

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Something very weird just occured.

Opera crashed (this is not the weird bit --they all crash--, it's merely annoying --merely, because thanks to the ability to open the last saved session, it's just a matter of being patient to find your opera right in the state it left you).

What is odd is that I had downloaded a .ogg file in the afternoon and that I was playing it with VLC, from my "Temporary downloads" folder, where all my (opera) downloads go. The .ogg file is no longer in the folder. The .ogg file has totally disappeared, in fact.

I'd like to download it again, and oddly enough, I can't find the URI in the history.

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