• Michael R (unregistered)

    I approve this special. Well deserved.

  • Outlook can't count (unregistered)

    Well if we're including the times Gmail can't count, I could send in 3 screenshots a day of Outlook saying I have an unread e-mail when I don't, or when I do have an unread e-mail I have no notification.

    I've been using Outlook for 20 years and it boggles my mind MS still can't count to 1 correctly.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to Outlook can't count

    I'm with you all the way on outlook. the android version consistently shows notifications for emails that haven't arrived in the app yet.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Tim

    I'm with you all the way on outlook. the android version consistently shows notifications for emails that haven't arrived in the app yet.

    This happens with IMAP clients. We're on Outlook365 here. I run a Linux desktop because I need X display from Big UNIX servers, so I'm running Thunderbird as an IMAP client. I get desktop notifications about new email and it takes as much as 2 minutes to get the actual email -- even if I hit "Get New Mail" a few times.

    IMHO ... it's not the client if you're seeing this in the Android app and I presume @Outlook can't count is seeing it in the desktop or web app as well. Sad, they've had 30 years to figure out how the already 25 year old idea of email works since they got in the game. :(

  • (nodebb)

    It's not just Outlook. Sometimes Mail and Messages on MacOS show unread message count badges for unread messages that can't be found.

  • (nodebb)

    (there must be a story to that nick, no?)

    @Lyle: There is, albeit not a very interesting one. The nickname is a reference to a line from the Judas Priest song "Nightcrawler" from their 1990 album "Painkiller", and came about during my student days when I was in a heavy metal band (lead/rhythm guitar, then pivoted to bass) and my penchant for being of nocturnal disposition and for wearing all-black clothing - no particular stylistic impetus there, it was just that buying black clothing meant I didn't have to make tedious choices.

  • (nodebb)

    Ah Outlook. When it's 10:00am and time for your 10:00am meeting but Outlook says there is 1 minute remaining.

  • gmail hater (unregistered)

    correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that bottom gmail one a bookmark? wouldn't that be the bookmark's name, then, rather than the page title? it defaults to the page title, but it doesn't autoupdate, and you can set it to whatever.

  • (nodebb) in reply to gmail hater

    I just re-checked the browser from which I'd posted that one, and you are absolutely right: that is indeed the bookmark - so I'm TRWTF. As I often am.

  • A Human (unregistered)

    E-mail is just one big, unreplaceable WTF.

  • (nodebb) in reply to gmail hater

    I came here to mention this too. The lower one is the horizontal bookmark bar, which shows whatever the current page title was at the time that particular bookmark was made, and Gmail, like most web email sites, writes the unread count there, so that text simply got saved as the bookmark's label.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Tim

    That sounds like push notifications getting ahead of the app.

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