Mozilla Email

[SRW]

Does anyone have any experience with Mozilla Email? Particularly in a business environment. Our desktop support group have decide to standardize on this and are putting it on every desk top. So far every-time someone has a problem the only fix I have is to install outlook and have them use it instead. The biggest headache I have seen is with the distribution groups. If you send an email to 10 people sometimes they all get it, other times 8 or 7 will get it.

This is a major problem because the person sending the mail may never know that some people did not get the message. Any other Bugs with Mozilla Email I should look out for?

[evildave]

Recipients not receiving sounds more like a problem with your mail server.

I use it for personal use, and never have a problem with it.

[SRW]

We have not seen the problem with people using Netscape mail or Outlook. Also its in all internal mail (I hope) that we are seeing the problem with. I don't know why a server would randomly choose one or two people form a distribution and toss their mail.

[shanek]

Originally posted by SRW
Does anyone have any experience with Mozilla Email?

Been using it as my main EMail client for over four years now.

The biggest headache I have seen is with the distribution groups. If you send an email to 10 people sometimes they all get it, other times 8 or 7 will get it.

This is a problem with the listserver, not the client. Mozilla should do all of the EMail functions you need, and do them well.

[iain]

I installed Mozilla for a small company as their main email client (using a Linux server with postfix as the mail server). They've had no significant problems at all that I'm aware of - been up and running for 4 or 5 months now.

[SRW]

After doing some further investigation into these problems, it appears we have a hardware problem, in each case I found a nut loose on the keyboard.

Chock up another one to operator head-space.

[shanek]

Originally posted by SRW
After doing some further investigation into these problems, it appears we have a hardware problem, in each case I found a nut loose on the keyboard.

Ah, the old ID-Ten-T component!

[iain]

Originally posted by SRW
After doing some further investigation into these problems, it appears we have a hardware problem, in each case I found a nut loose on the keyboard. Nice detective work. I know how difficult it can be to solve a problem once you've set off down the wrong path to start with.

[SRW]

Originally posted by iain
Nice detective work. I know how difficult it can be to solve a problem once you've set off down the wrong path to start with.

I have been doing this for many years, I always use the shotgun approach to trouble shooting, look and all the possible causes of a problem instead of focusing in on one.

[evildave]

It's my experience that if it's not one thing, it's ten things.

Love those short-between-headset problems.