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mochyn

Blank e-mails

When I try to send e-mails from my ordinary account (Firenet) the subject line is OK but the body of the mail is blank.

Any ideas, anyone?
dragonnefyre

Just having a look at the firenet homepage. I assume it is www.firenet.uk.net. Are you sending using webmail or an email client sauch as Thunderbird, Outlook, etc? have you tried to send an email to yourself to see if the body of the email is not blank?
mochyn

Hello FF. I'm going through Firenet, and I've tried sending myself mail: same result. I suppose I'm going to have to call them, shich is a pain because 1) I hate using the phone, and 2) I know less than nothing about computers!
dragonnefyre

Check your options. The body of the text may be sent as an attachment. They may have changed the way it works and made this happen. Also try replying to or forwarding an email someone has sent to you then the body should have something in it already. Just change the address to your own and see what you receive.
doctoral

Set up a Hotmail account, then you can test your normal email as often as you want.
tahir

doctoral wrote:
Set up a Hotmail account, then you can test your normal email as often as you want.


Good idea
dpack

hotmail is my normal email cos it works
dragonnefyre

You could have a google mail account if you like. I could send you an invite. You do get a bit of spam at first but it drops off and their filters are quite good. You get about 2.7GB of disk space.
mochyn

Strangely, I've just sent myself a mail and it's working!

As I often say, if it doesn't grow I don't really understand...

Thanks to all of you for your ideas, though!
dougal

As established elsewhere, Mochyn has been using a Webmail interface to her ISP's mail servers.

Its currently rather trendy at the moment to pretty these things up using a technology called AJAX.
Which is basically linking scripts on the server with Javascript in the user's web browser...
Quote:
The start of 2005 saw the rise of a relatively new technology, dubbed “Ajax” by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. In a nutshell, it is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest() object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, HTML, and even text files. Ajax’s most appealing characteristic, however, is its “asynchronous” nature, which means it can do all of this without having to refresh the page. This allows you to update portions of a page based upon user events and provides one of the cornerstones of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) referred to in discussions of “Web 2.0.”
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/gettingstartedwithajax

However, the essence is that it relies on Javascript, which is notoriously not-quite-standard between different web browsers. And different versions of the same browser. Twisted Evil
So anytime the ISP tweaks the scripts without checking them with your browser, there may be a problem until its brought to their attention and they fix it.
Mochyn is running Apple's browser (Safari) and probably in a non-current version. My guess is that the ISP hadn't tested their scripting with Safari... and just possibly after she brought it to their attention, they discovered, and fixed, the problem that they had created.
mochyn

See the 'Updating Java' thread!

All well now: I was doing all sorts of things wrong, I think, and friend fixed it for me.
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