
Have you ever considered how dependant you are on e-mail? How would you get your business done if your e-mail account went down for a day or two or more? I am sure that is a scary thought for most of you who are reading this.
Well this is day three and no relief in sight for me. After more calls to tech support than I can count and several reassurances it will be back up, I am still pulling my hair out. The scariest part is that no one who sends me an e-mail gets any kind of error message that it didn't go through.
No e-mail for three days. During that time I signed two new listings and opened two new escrows. It has been challenging to contact everyone that I expect to get messages from. What about all the others that I have no way of knowing who they are?
I pride myself on being responsive and this is killing me inside. Hopefully it will be up today. If not I may be sucking wind over the weekend.
Those who complain about my lack of responsiveness will at least give me an opportunity to apologize and service them. The others will just go away and I may never know it happened.
This has taught me how dependant I am on my e-mail.


Hi Randy,
It is amazing how dependent we are on these things that are supposed to actually free up time for us. Another thing that is bad is if I leave the cell phone behind... talk about being dependent on something.
Have a great weekend.
Michael A. Caruso
Scary Thought!!! I have several accounts with hotmail, gmail & yahoo, in addition I have my company email. I should copy all my contacts to outlook Just In Case!
Goodness. Don't you have web access to your mail server?? You should be able to go to any computer and pull webmail from the server even if the server won't send it to your e-mail client.
Strange. But, I'd be pulling my hair out. I had 2 days when my electricity was out mid Feb.
Diana - It is frustrating at best.
Michael - When I have left my cell phone behind, I felt like my arm was cut off.
Lorrie - It is a web based e-mail server and it is not working. The webmail is not picking up or sending messages.
Frank - I have the ability to check e-mail without Outlook. Unfortunately the account is dead. I have a business, I can not use yahoo. I need my domain name attached to the e-mail.
Sara - I have no problem with my contacts, etc. I am just unable to receive messages sent to that account.
Neal - I use very little snail mail compared to e-mail also.
Hi Randy,
Sure hope your email gets up and running soon!! Now that is really and example of a "stressful" situation.
Leslie - Stressful is an understatement.
Roland - I bring my laptop and Sprint Card when traveling. On cruise I would go crazy, when the signal is lost.
Bill - If everyone else had to give it up, we who grew up without it would have a huge advantage over most young people.
Gary - I can not image managing the ton of e-mail I get through a PDA. I opted for the Sprint Card and my laptop instead. A big screen, a full keyboard and Outlook to Spam filter is the only way I could possibly manage it.
Email and cell phones are two important things in our lives these days.