24 Replies Latest reply: May 26, 2009 8:54 AM by S.D.A. RSS

    E-mail Still Borked

    S.D.A. Community Member

      Since the Forum update of yesterday morning, I thought I'd give e-mail reading/responding of these fne Forums another go. Each e-mail is returned (very promptly I might add) with the following;

       

       

      Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.sgaur.hosted.jivesoftware.com
      X-Postfix-Queue-ID: CA9C02408205
      X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; marathon.durandal@gmail.com
      Arrival-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 06:54:33 -0600 (MDT)
      
      Final-Recipient: rfc822; clearspace-1503553350-74241-2-1985438@mail.forums.adobe.com
      Original-Recipient:
      +rfc822;clearspace-1503553350-74241-2-1985438@mail.forums.adobe.com
      Action: failed
      Status: 5.0.0
      Remote-MTA: dns; 10.137.24.42
      Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553
          <clearspace-1503553350-74241-2-1985438@mail.forums.adobe.com> address
          unknown.
      
      [-- Attachment #3: Undelivered Message --]
      [-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 8bit, Size: 4.0K --]
      
       
      

       

      Notice this: Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553     <clearspace-1503553350-74241-2-1985438@mail.forums.adobe.com> address unknown.

       

      Whomever is in charge of the mail server (Postfix) needs to fix this. Pretty basic stuff. Postfix should be able to do all we need in order for the forums e-mail delivery to work seamlessly with the JAVA software, you just need to get someone whom ulnderstands these protocols rather than being just a web applicaton expert.


      Thanks I've said my say.

        • 1. Re: E-mail Still Borked
          Kath-H Community Member

          Yup.

           

          Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553

              <clearspace-1000355156-38842-2-1987865@mail.forums.adobe.com> address

              unknown.

          • 2. Re: E-mail Still Borked
            Mark A. Boyd Community Member

            Confirmed here.

             

            As far as I'm concerned, they can keep it that way until the email system is actually ready for two-way correspondence.

             

            To me that means that in addition to supplying normal email headers, it should treat quotes, code blocks, links, subject header, etc. in a consistent and predictible manner. Without munging the message or the code. If they're going to use some wiki-style notation, limit it to specific keywords, do not treat everything between square brackets (and other symbols) as something that should be translated. And it should NOT edit anything inside code blocks!

             

            Not sure how I feel about inline images or attachments at this time. I guess for attachments, they should either kill the virus checking queue or reject all attachments - and delete the Attach Files feature in the Web interface.

             

            At this point, the email notifications are exaclty that. Notification that somebody has replied to a thread/forum you're subscribed to. It is not meant as a means to participate with a reply, just as a link you can use to read the actual message - and it can be used to pick up where you left off in a long thread.

             

            I ammended a line to my sig recently to reflect this opinion. And yes I still use a sig in other forums.

             

             

            --
            Mark A. Boyd
            Keep-On-Learnin' :-)
            If you are reading this via email, be aware that it may not be an accurate representation of my message. Login to read the actual message and/or to reply.

            • 3. Re: E-mail Still Borked
              Christian Davideck Community Member

              Confirming that e-mail reply doesn't work for me either

               

              Adobe shouldn't ask users to e-mail back, saying it is the "recommended method", when it doesn't even work (and users even have to retype a lost,  lenghty answer in the worst case!)

               

              To post a reply to the thread message, either reply to this email (recommended) or visit the message page:
              • 4. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                kanguyen Adobe Employee

                Hi all - thanks for reporting this.

                 

                I've logged a priority 1 case with Jive Support and they should be responding shortly.

                 

                I truly apologize for this. If I am feeling frustrated, I can only imagine how you guys feel.

                 

                I'll post an update once it's available.

                • 5. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                  Christian Davideck Community Member

                  To avoid this situation:

                  "If you are reading this via email, be aware that it may not be an accurate representation of my message. Login to read the actual message and/or to reply."

                   

                  ... wouldn't it be necessary to send out a new e-mail notification after message changes via the web interface ?

                  • 6. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                    JayJhabrix Community Member

                    kanguyen wrote:

                     

                    I truly apologize for this. If I am feeling frustrated, I can only imagine how you guys feel.

                     

                    I'll post an update once it's available.

                    What a refreshing attitude... Kanguyen and John C are like cheese compared to the chalk that are some other Adobe employee posters.

                    • 7. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                      Mark A. Boyd Community Member

                      Christian Davideck wrote:

                       

                      To avoid this situation:

                      "If
                      you are reading this via email, be aware that it may not be an accurate
                      representation of my message. Login to read the actual message and/or
                      to reply."

                       

                      ... wouldn't it be necessary to send out a new e-mail notification after message changes via the web interface ?

                       

                      For edited messages, you're right. And I don't actually expect such edits to be re-sent to everybody subscribed to the thread/forum. However, what goes out in emails even for unedited messages is not accurate. Links within the forum or to other forums are often stripped.

                       

                      I don't know if it is still happening, but is the following hyperlinked in your email notification? Posting code in this forum or is it stripped down to */thread/427712* ? That particular link cause a bunch of round-about messages until I finally figured out that the recipient never saw a link to click on in his email.

                       

                      Of course, I can send the full URL instead, and I have not seen any problems with doing that. But that does not change the fact that the Jive email system modifies both incoming and outgoing email messages such that they are not accurate representations of the messages that were sent or posted online.

                      • 8. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                        Mark A. Boyd Community Member

                        kanguyen wrote:

                        I've logged a priority 1 case with Jive Support and they should be responding shortly.

                         

                         

                        Thanks!

                        • 9. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                          Jochem van Dieten CommunityMVP

                          kanguyen wrote on 2009-05-26 01:41:

                          I've logged a priority 1 case with Jive Support and they should be responding shortly.

                           

                          I'll post an update once it's available.

                           

                          Email is working now.

                           

                          Jochem

                           

                           

                          --

                          Jochem van Dieten

                          http://jochem.vandieten.net/

                          • 10. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                            Christian Davideck Community Member

                            Mark A. Boyd wrote:

                             

                            I don't know if it is still happening, but is the following hyperlinked in your email notification? Posting code in this forum or is it stripped down to */thread/427712* ?

                             

                            No link in my e-mail notification.

                            • 12. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                              Christian Davideck Community Member

                              Christian Davideck wrote:

                               

                              just trying to see if e-mail reply works...

                               

                              test

                               

                              OK, yes, e-mail reply does indeed work now.

                               

                              But ... new problem: It took my first few words and made a link of it (which takey you nowhere ... error-message)

                              • 13. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                Christian Davideck Community Member

                                Is there a way to add quotations into our text, when we type our replies via e-mail ?

                                • 14. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                  JayJhabrix Community Member

                                  Christian Davideck wrote:

                                   

                                  Is there a way to add quotations into our text, when we type our replies via e-mail ?

                                  I would presume you just use the quotation marks....

                                  • 15. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                    Christian Davideck Community Member

                                    [test via e-mail]

                                     

                                    ok, thanks  for the tip.

                                     

                                    "I would presume you just use the quotation marks...."

                                     

                                    [/test]

                                     

                                    EDIT: no, doesn't work

                                    • 16. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                      kanguyen Adobe Employee

                                      As Jochem mentioned, the reply by email issue should be fixed now.

                                      • 17. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                        Christian Davideck Community Member
                                        As Jochem mentioned, the reply by email issue should be fixed now.

                                         

                                        Yes, many thanks !!

                                         

                                         

                                        There are still formatting issues though. For example you MUST NOT write plus signs. If you type this

                                        via e-mail:

                                         

                                        (7500x4500,16bit,10+MP raw SMO, hitting CTRL A+D after moving)

                                         

                                        you get this on the web:

                                         

                                        (7500x4500,16bit,10MP raw SMO, hitting CTRL AD after moving)

                                         

                                         

                                        And when you use [square brackets] you create links, that's intended ?

                                         

                                        Is there any format guide, as to what special characters will do in e-mails ?

                                        • 18. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                          S.D.A. Community Member

                                           

                                          It appears to be fixed. At least in the sense that my response to an earlier

                                          post wasn't returned. Whether it shows up in the web interface is another

                                          thing. Hopefully the 'repeater' bug is fixed !

                                           

                                          --

                                          Best Regards,

                                           

                                          Steve

                                          • 19. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                            S.D.A. Community Member

                                             

                                            It appears to be fixed. At least in the sense that my response to an earlier

                                            post wasn't returned. Whether it shows up in the web interface is another

                                            thing. Hopefully the 'repeater' bug is fixed !

                                             

                                            --

                                            Best Regards,

                                             

                                            Steve

                                            • 20. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                              Ramón G Castañeda Community Member

                                              S.D.A. wrote:

                                               

                                              …Hopefully the 'repeater' bug is fixed !

                                               

                                              Nope.  You're repeating again.

                                              • 21. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                                S.D.A. Community Member

                                                O OH Not the repeater bug again ... <SIGH> (via web interface)

                                                • 22. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                                  S.D.A. Community Member

                                                  Some (not all) of my e-mail posts are repeating again as you can see in this thread.

                                                   

                                                  I'm wondering if it's how I reply to a thread (as not all are repeating). For example how does one allow for quoting attribution when responding via e-mail ? I guess a 'how to' for e-mail responses and new posts is needed ?

                                                  • 23. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                                    kanguyen Adobe Employee

                                                    S.D.A. - part of the deployment this weekend was to add additional logging to help troubleshoot the repeater bug. Hopefully all the echoing you're doing will help us figure it out. Thanks for your continued patience!

                                                     

                                                     

                                                    • 24. Re: E-mail Still Borked
                                                      S.D.A. Community Member

                                                       

                                                      It appears to be fixed. At least in the sense that my response to an earlier

                                                      post wasn't returned. Whether it shows up in the web interface is another

                                                      thing. Hopefully the 'repeater' bug is fixed !

                                                       

                                                      --

                                                      Best Regards,

                                                       

                                                      Steve