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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    If I send you an e-mail and your power goes off .... you can't lose it can you? Someone explain to me how you lose an e-mail through the internet when your power goes down and mine doesn't?

    I called an office in Springfield, MA about a client we have in common and the girl said, "Our power and computers were down on Friday so I couldn't have gotten your e-mail." Was she serious?

    I'm pleading ignorance here, but I swore that the world's internet didn't stop if your power went down. How does this work? Or was this just her lame excuse for not reading the e-mail? I'm just so confused!!

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    I own Allanon mavs>spurs2's Avatar
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    it should have been in her inbox as soon as she was able to get back online

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    she probably has a dirty box

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    it should have been in her inbox as soon as she was able to get back online
    That's what I'm sayin'! I didn't want to get in a fight with her, so I just forwarded her the e-mail I sent previously.

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    a female lied? whats the world coming to?

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    You should call her immediate superiors. They need to be informed that they're paying and employing a moron.

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    She deleted it.

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    You should call her immediate superiors. They need to be informed that they're paying and employing a moron.
    I'll have my supervisor do it. Then I don't look like the .

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    I'm no tech guru but don't a lot of bigger companies have their own e-mail servers? If they lost power/went down I could see how it could be lost...

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    I'm no tech guru but don't a lot of bigger companies have their own e-mail servers? If they lost power/went down I could see how it could be lost...
    dm dum dum! This was the type of answer I was looking for. How she could have lost it. I think all the offices are run individually and this office is the central "sale date" office, so hypothetically they could have their own server... but I highly doubt it.

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    dm dum dum! This was the type of answer I was looking for. How she could have lost it. I think all the offices are run individually and this office is the central "sale date" office, so hypothetically they could have their own server... but I highly doubt it.
    I'm sure they do have their own server, unless you're sending it to her Road Runner email or something.

    Your first post is a little confusing, first you make it seem like she got the email, the power went out, and she lost it.

    Then what you said she said sounds like their email server was down because the power was out and she never received the email.

    You'd think though that your email would get kicked back as undeliverable.

    But since it's two women were talking about, who the knows...

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    I'm sure they do have their own server, unless you're sending it to her Road Runner email or something.

    Your first post is a little confusing, first you make it seem like she got the email, the power went out, and she lost it.

    Then what you said she said sounds like their email server was down because the power was out and she never received the email.

    You'd think though that your email would get kicked back as undeliverable.

    But since it's two women were talking about, who the knows...
    Well, I'm confused too. We have our own e-mail servers @acorn & @acornhousing so the server isn't a problem. It didn't get kicked back though, so she did "get it. So the server couldn't have been down could it? I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out myself.

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    Also, her system could have screened you as junk mail depending on how they have it set up..some corporate systems only accept e-mails from people in the address book or use strict screening...I know half the time I just hit "delete all" on junk mail and don't even look at them.

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    whatever the reason she's a .

    /end thread

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    The internet waits on hold while I'm away.

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    The internet waits on hold while I'm away.
    so you were gone at 4:56 pm on Friday? That would explain why she didn't get it!!

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    The internet waits on hold while I'm away.
    word

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    Man look at them tig ol bitties!!
    Don't mind me just moving this around. Please go about your business

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    ... and the girl said, "Our power and computers were down on Friday so I couldn't have gotten your e-mail....
    i call bull

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    I'm no tech guru but don't a lot of bigger companies have their own e-mail servers? If they lost power/went down I could see how it could be lost...
    your right, it is best practice to have your mail servers plugged directly into the electrical outlet without an UPS.
    i still call BS on this one.....she sent it to junk mail.

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    JUST 4 TONIGHT DannyT's Avatar
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    Also, her system could have screened you as junk mail depending on how they have it set up..some corporate systems only accept e-mails from people in the address book or use strict screening...I know half the time I just hit "delete all" on junk mail and don't even look at them.
    but she got it the second time?

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    I'm no tech guru but don't a lot of bigger companies have their own e-mail servers? If they lost power/went down I could see how it could be lost...
    Actually no.

    If the mail server is setup in a half decent way, then even in that event the mail doesn't get lost.

    The e-mail system is quite smart and beside relaying messages between them, e-mail servers also "talk" to each other. So before sending the e-mail the server will check if the machine at the other side is accepting e-mail for such and such address. After sending it it will ask if the message was received OK ( even a fax machine does that), and if not it will try again. If the receiving server is busy (for whatever reason like regular maintenance) it can tell the sending one that it temporarily doesn't accept mails, and the other one will then just try later. And if the mail is really undeliverable you should get a message from your mail server telling you just that. These examples are only a sample of many scenarios that are taken care of in the e-mail protocol.

    So e-mails don't really get lost.

    There is only one, unlikely, scenario where their mail server loses its hard disks as a result of the power shortage. That doesn't happen often, specially since a half decent setup has the servers on UPSs.

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    Runrunrunawaybaby ashbeeigh's Avatar
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    but she got it the second time?
    if I know if she got this e-mail. She's gotten e-mails from me before though.

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    i know if I saw an e-mail in my junk file from an @acorn domain I would just assume it was some nut and delete it.

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    Next time send a read receipt request...

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