December 05, 2003

Where are my sent messages?

To think, Seton Hill wonders why so few students use their email account. In honor of my lame acad.setonhill.edu account, I've compiled a list.

    Top 10 Reasons To Avoid SHU's Email System
  1. Where are my sent messages? I have the option, but the folder for them is invisible. I assume they are saved, but where???
  2. "Delete checked items" only works half the time, yet the message is still deleted....honest.
  3. When you delete, you have to empty the recycle bin icon too, or else you'll get mysterious over-capacity emails.
  4. You don't have a visible deleted items folder, so you don't know that you are storing them until you receive a message (as above).
  5. Your email extension is too long.
  6. When you use the bcc field, the message will never actually get to its recipient.
  7. The "close" button doesn't save or give a "you need to save" warning, it just x's out the window. The save button is actually a very tiny thing sure to be missed the first few uses.
  8. Overuse of social security digits.
  9. An icon suggests that you can "create folder" but if you try to create it, you'll get a "cannot create folder" message. Hmm.
  10. Those mysterious deleted items/sent messages folders? Finally found them. Have to hit the little "up folder" button above "Inbox" on the left bar. Who knew? I've only been using this lame thing for 3.5 years.
And a bonus: The Seton Hill people set dates to delete everything from your account...which stinks for a few days if you actually use it for your primary email.

With all this in mind, why would you use this email account?

Posted by Julie Young at December 5, 2003 07:41 PM
Comments

I don't use my e-mail account, but for some reason they give them all out. Might it be easier for the IT department to give them out on an as needed basis? Who knows. I suggest Yahoo. It has worked well for me, but you have to scrounge for a username. Good Luck getting anything without letters, numbers AND underscores. My most recent creation was: bamse_2k3.

As far as the email, I can not check it half of the time from off-campus, which makes it even more useless. Because often the IT department doesn't test the system from the students point of view, they don't know when things don't work until you bring it to your attention. I think that those that use the acad address should rally and tell the IT department your problems, because as long as they come in 1-by-1, no one will do anything about it. Power in Numbers is the key to making change at SHU. That I can definately tell you.

Posted by: Brian McCollum at December 7, 2003 11:37 PM

By the way ... top 10 lists are more exciting when you count backwards ... it creates more suspense. Someone should create a "Top 10" list for a Setonian article. That could be funny. (Hint Hint ... you seem to know how to word things to bring out the satire)

Posted by: Brian McCollum at December 7, 2003 11:38 PM

Hey now, I was using the ordered list function. >:O

Posted by: Julie at December 7, 2003 11:57 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?