STEVE said:
I AM CURRENTLY RELYING ON OUTLOOK EXPRESS FOR JOBS BEING SENT TO ME.
Not an issue with IE6, the topic of this newsgroup.
Why are you using a long-dead and unsupported e-mail client? OE support
died back in 2006 (and also when its development team got disbanded).
OE relies on methods (functions) define in IE's libraries (DLL files).
That means functions on which OE relies may not be correctly defined or
not even exist in later versions of IE. OE came bundled with IE up
until and including version 6. Since OE was a dead product, it was no
longer bundled with subsequent versions of IE that were released after
that (7 & 8). Since this is a business-use of e-mail, consider moving
to a newer and supported e-mail client. Many are free.
I AM A REAL ESTATE APPRAISER AND I RECEIVE A NOTICE BY
WAY OF AN EMAIL FROM A LENDER THAT AN APPRAISAL JOB IS AVAILABLE IF I CAN GET
TO IT FIRST BEFORE THE OTHER APPRAISERS. IT'S FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
Is EVERY appraiser on the lender's list shown in the To/Cc headers in
the e-mail that you receive? If not, how do you know the lender doesn't
send to appraiser 1, then to appraiser 2, and so on until they get to
appraiser N which is you? There might only be a few seconds difference
between when they send their e-mail to the first appraiser to when they
send you a copy. There could be an hour difference, or more. Your
e-mail client might provide for instantaneous notification (which the
e-mail protocols were never designed -- they are NOT instant messaging
clients) but that won't help if the sender sends you the copy of their
e-mail a lot later then they send to someone else.
THE SETTING ON MY "CHECK FOR NEW
MESSAGES EVERY" DOES NOT GO BELOW 1 MINUTE (60 SECONDS) WHICH I'M REALIZING
IS AN ETERNITY, ESPECIALLY IF SOMEONE ELSE HAS AN EMAIL INBOX THAT HAS A
DELAY THEY CAN SET FOR ONE SECOND OR LESS.
Nope, no one has an e-mail client with 1-second poll intervals. The
time to establish a mail session between client and server, to issue and
authenticate the login credentials, for the client to send a LIST
command to find out if there are any items in the mailbox, for the
server to send back a response, for the client to retrieve any new
items, and to close the mail session would take FAR longer than that.
It is considered abusive to poll for e-mails at less than 5-minute
intervals. In fact, some e-mail providers have anti-abuse quotas that
will result in your account getting locked out for a day if you exceed
some nebulous threshold regarding this abuse. E-mail is NOT and instant
messaging protocol. You are wastefully consuming resources at the
e-mail provider to check for e-mails that don't exist and doing so at an
excessive rate. The polling interval should be 10 minutes, or more.
Also, when there are e-mails in your mailbox, how long does it take to
get them? That includes establishing a connection to their server,
authenticating your login credentials, your e-mail client issuing a LIST
to find out if there are any items in your mailbox, followed by a UID to
get the unique IDs, a RETR command on each new item to retrieve it with
its bytes getting sent to you, and ending the mail session. If your
e-mail client attempts to do another mail poll before the current one is
finished, the current mail poll gets stepped on and aborted to do the
next mail poll and the whole process starts over.
If you want an instant messaging client then use one (MSN/Live
Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Trillian, or whatever floats your boat). Of
course, that means whomever is your e-mail provider also includes IM
(instant messaging) services with their e-mail service. Then, if the IM
client is running, you get notified as soon as a new e-mail shows up in
your mailbox. Microsoft has their Windows Live Messenger. Yahoo has
their Messenger. AOL has their IM client. Trillian and other IM
clients work with all 3 IM services.
It is unlikely that you will get the sender to use an IM client to
notify all potential candidates (and, if they did, all of you that are
notified at the same time have no advantage over the other as you wanted
to do with abuse of your e-mail provider through excessive mail polls at
overly short intervals). They will continue to send an e-mail; however,
you have no guarantee that you all were sent their e-mail at the same
time. Look for an e-mail provider that includes instant messaging to
let you know immediately when you have a new message waiting. Stop
using the wrong communications protocol for the wrong purpose.
And stop yelling at those from whom you want help. Posting in uppercase
is YELLING.
