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Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I un

by jfoutz 14y ago

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages. They're not even pretending it's a serious offering. They're just screwing around with settings. edit -- mail lag is 30 minutes now -- and work, and failed.

kalleboo 14y ago
I had my test message arrive straight away... Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually.
- user24 14y ago
  > Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually Incidentally, I once missed facebook asking me to interview because their message ended up in that folder.
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- jfoutz 14y ago
 I'm pretty sure a html 3.5 subset is what's rendered by mail clients. At least, gmail uses font to change fonts, and span to change color. they were both ignored. this was the raw string gmail generated: abc def ghi jkl mno pqr</font= > stu vwx<div>
FixThisPOSSite 14y ago
What do you expect from this moronic site, which is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs? The only hope is that this change will be a tiny step toward informing users that they should log in with the string that precedes "@facebook.com". Otherwise, it's just dumb and dumb: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use-e-mail-address-as.html http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do. Somehow.
- josteink 14y ago
  In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do Obviously you can confirm that the real messages that you do receive gets through. What about those that didn't? How do you know that they didn't? How do you know no such messages exist? Are you being naive here or am I missing some sarcasm?
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    Serious, but yes, I do worry about real messages that didn't get through. Hmm.
- jfoutz 14y ago
  You'll never see this, but in light of todays announcements about facebook dropping mail, apparently tons of real messages do indeed get lost.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    Good thing I'm not using Facebook or its mail service then. My statement was about email forwarding from my domain... D:
eric-hu 14y ago
On top of that, I tried to remove my new Facebook email address from my profile. I got the following error message: There was an error removing the email: xxxxxxx@facebook.com Did I type the wrong password? Maybe that was supposed to be a capital letter. Oh, there's a different 'wrong password' email...
- josteink 14y ago
  You cannot remove it. You just need to set it visible only to you, set it not visible on your timeline. And then setup another public email which you will have to show to everyone instead. I'm pretty sure you didn't have to do that before.
  - mike-cardwell 14y ago
    I don't think the above is true. I currently have two email addresses in my profile. My personal one, and the Facebook one. Both are set to "Me Only", and also "Hidden from profile"
fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. But why do you put up with that? Not having a Facebook account is starting to make me feel like an anti-social loser. But I just can't get over how creepy they are. How do other people live with that?
- pasbesoin 14y ago
  I think it's also another aspect of / attempt at lock-in. Pre Facebookitization of profile email addresses, if you wanted to communicate outside of Facebook or even begin to exit FB altogether, you had a ready means of staying in touch with at least those FB friends who displayed an email address on their profile. Now, you are stuck with FB to stay in touch, unless/until you and each such friend exchange a non-FB email address or other means of contact. P.S. As an example of the former, any time a FB friend wants to discuss a health-related issue, the first thing I do is take the conversation outside FB.

by jfoutz 14y ago

kalleboo 14y ago

I had my test message arrive straight away... Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually.

user24 14y ago
> Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually Incidentally, I once missed facebook asking me to interview because their message ended up in that folder.

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jfoutz 14y ago
I'm pretty sure a html 3.5 subset is what's rendered by mail clients. At least, gmail uses font to change fonts, and span to change color. they were both ignored. this was the raw string gmail generated: abc def ghi jkl mno pqr</font= > stu vwx<div>

FixThisPOSSite 14y ago

What do you expect from this moronic site, which is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs? The only hope is that this change will be a tiny step toward informing users that they should log in with the string that precedes "@facebook.com". Otherwise, it's just dumb and dumb: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use-e-mail-address-as.html http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do. Somehow.

josteink 14y ago
In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do Obviously you can confirm that the real messages that you do receive gets through. What about those that didn't? How do you know that they didn't? How do you know no such messages exist? Are you being naive here or am I missing some sarcasm?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Serious, but yes, I do worry about real messages that didn't get through. Hmm.
jfoutz 14y ago
You'll never see this, but in light of todays announcements about facebook dropping mail, apparently tons of real messages do indeed get lost.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Good thing I'm not using Facebook or its mail service then. My statement was about email forwarding from my domain... D:

eric-hu 14y ago

On top of that, I tried to remove my new Facebook email address from my profile. I got the following error message: There was an error removing the email: xxxxxxx@facebook.com Did I type the wrong password? Maybe that was supposed to be a capital letter. Oh, there's a different 'wrong password' email...

josteink 14y ago
You cannot remove it. You just need to set it visible only to you, set it not visible on your timeline. And then setup another public email which you will have to show to everyone instead. I'm pretty sure you didn't have to do that before.
- mike-cardwell 14y ago
  I don't think the above is true. I currently have two email addresses in my profile. My personal one, and the Facebook one. Both are set to "Me Only", and also "Hidden from profile"

fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago

I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. But why do you put up with that? Not having a Facebook account is starting to make me feel like an anti-social loser. But I just can't get over how creepy they are. How do other people live with that?

pasbesoin 14y ago
I think it's also another aspect of / attempt at lock-in. Pre Facebookitization of profile email addresses, if you wanted to communicate outside of Facebook or even begin to exit FB altogether, you had a ready means of staying in touch with at least those FB friends who displayed an email address on their profile. Now, you are stuck with FB to stay in touch, unless/until you and each such friend exchange a non-FB email address or other means of contact. P.S. As an example of the former, any time a FB friend wants to discuss a health-related issue, the first thing I do is take the conversation outside FB.