On Thursday 12 April 2007, Rickey Moore wrote: >On 4/12/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 4/12/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:19 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote: >> > > Before you do what I did and battle with my email client (Evolution) >> > > Gmail is the source of the problem. It's been down since noon >> > > yesterday. Ric >> > >> > What kind of problems? >> > My gmail/evo works just fine. (... and much as evo works just fine...) >> >> The POP3 access seems to be down. At least it was for me last night. >> Webmail worked fine though. > >There's a slew of disgruntled gmail users that got knocked out >somehow. I can now send, but not retrieve. The crowd is getting >pretty ugly about it in the gmail help topics forum. Of course, your's >truly stirs the port occasionally. I thought it was on my end, >downgraded evolution, lost all of my mail folders and contents in the >process, beat myself up for awhile, re-installed, all to no avail. >THEN I thought to check gmail on the website and found all of the rest >of the lost souls. > >We're huddled around the campfire built inside a busted TV, just like >in "Terminator". Refugees from a very technological world that is a >great place to live, until something basic like email blows up. At >least it knows no discrimination with regards to race, creed or OS. >Mac, Windows, Linux users of various types are all affected. I find >some measure of comfort in that. :) Ric > ><no tag line either> Yup, ugly ain't it. I lost the main drive about midnight, and shortly before that, vz decided my passwd was bogus. I didn't get that fixed till about 10am when I finally convinced the vz 'tech support' (what an oxymoron that is) twerps on the phone that I needed a new passwd reset. In the meantime I'd done a dd from the main drive to an even bigger one, shutdown and swapped the drives around, and that rebooted well enough I as able to run fdisk (on a live drive) and without touching the the partitions dd had transfered, added a last primary # 4 to represent the rest of the disk, about another 40GB. But fdisk couldn't resync at the end because it was running live. The next reboot took about 8 hours because /dev/hda3 was suddenly trash. By the time an e2fsck got done, I had to re-invent about half of the kmail settings. But I think I'm up and running, till that new 320GB Maxtor falls over for good, it already, in 11 hours of powerup, has registered hundreds of millions of seek errors and corrected ECC errors are right behind it countwise. Lets just say I'm NOT impressed with this new drive. Its been an interesting 18 hours since about 9 last night when I saw the ECC errors going up at about 20 a second on the main drive. Sleep would be nice... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't see his feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football." -- Chuck Newcombe
