Did you know that if your email inbox is overfull, new email can’t be delivered?
I’m not looking at anyone in particular, of course – but someone here just didn’t get a recommendation to go see “The Aristocrats.”
[Johnny Carson] I did not know that. [/Johnny Carson].
I knew that. I don’t know that I’ve ever not gotten e-mail because of it- but I’ve gotten nasty warning e-mails telling me that my inbox was overfull. The thing which was annoying was that it generally happens when someone decides to send a bunch of digital pictures without warning, and my inbox goes from being 40% full to 110% full. (Especially likely when the sender of the pictures sends them TWICE.)
That would be my dad. Who then follows it up with another email, telling me my mailbox is full. :smack: Then he calls me, to tell me my inbox is full and I need to delete some mail.
I’m thinking of getting a separate email address just for dad to write to. Problem is, he checks mom’s email for her, so he’d soon figure out that I had different addresses for both of them, then his feelings would get hurt.
I did know that.
What I didn’t know until recently was that, at least on our server, (1) when the mailbox is full, you can’t even send e-mail, and (2) when this happens, the unsent mail is stored in the Draft folder, and (3) the Draft folder counts towards the mailbox quota. At least I think that’s what happened - I lost a couple days’ worth of e-mail until I found the unsent messages (with 40MB attachments) lurking in the Draft folder and filling up my mailbox. It’s a Microsoft Exchange server.
You could switch your mom to that address, too.
Of course, then you’d have to switch any siblings you do the “cc” thing with.
And then …