Email Trouble

I am having email problems and I guess it should matter, but I guess it does. One of my email accounts is fritzing out, and I can’t get new email, or even have any of the old email I save. It’s Imap and I thought I had a version of offline, but it seems I don’t, in anycase, my Imap folders are all there, but they are all completely empty.

At first it was that I wasn’t getting new email since sometime on or after April 16th. I don’t do a lot with email always, I get very little, infrequently get, in other words, personal email. I sometimes send stuff, but often use my phone, or just not often send things. In the last week I recall that I did send something to my hubby and I bcc’d myself to have an Inbox record of it, not just my “sent” folder copy of it. Thunderbird, the client I use, couldn’t “copy to sent folder” and so I clicked through that and walked away. I puzzled at not seeing that email on my phone, but then thought of other things.

This morning I was up early (while still dark out) and got to thinking about it and took forever to figure out how to put it to Dreamhost in a support request. While I was doing that my Inbox went blank, hadn’t been before, and all the messages in the other folders looked to be there, but when I opened any of them they were blank inside, no headers either. I started to do some Print Screen things of errors when sending, and got sick of that, and when going back to Thunderbird that account had nothing in any folder, folder structure there, but empty otherwise.

So I abandoned my Print Screen project to aide in telling my story. I ended up blithering something into the support form and sent it away.

I realize that I never got that email I bcc’d to myself and never knew it had bounced or was “undeliverable” since I was the one sending that couldn’t receive, but didn’t know. Vicious circle, ain’t it?

If this ever gets fixed I’ll make super duper sure to back up separately some email stuff. Fingers crossed.