Thursday, August 04, 2011

Lost in Cyberspace

Somewhere between Gmail and Outlook, an email vanished. I looked everywhere, but to no avail. Since I always check Gmail in the AM before I open Outlook, I did see the email so I know it was there. It came yesterday into Gmail but it never came into my Outlook which stays open all day once I open it.

So where did it go? All of the other messages received in Gmail downloaded into Outlook, but not this one. It's not in the Inbox or the folder where it should have filtered. Not in the junk mail folder, the deleted folder or anywhere else. It just didn't download.

So now I am wondering. Did all of the extra stuff Google has added to Gmail 'break' something? Or is Outlook having hiccups?

So now I start to think; I have seen some replies to emails that I don't recall seeing. Hmm, I will check my Yahoo mail online. (I have two email accounts that download mail into Outlook.) I know I turned the SPAM filter off, but just in case I looked. There were 41 legitimate emails in the SPAM filter! Is Yahoo playing a 'gotcha' on me?

I reset the settings, so now I will check to see if more legitimate email goes to the SPAM filter. I think too much is happening with Google and Yahoo, each wanting to be a 'Social Network', and stuff may be getting broken along the way.