I was at work today, and some guy asked me if I could help him figure out why he wasn't getting any email. Usually this means your account is over the 50 MB storage limit, so I told him how to delete his email (or at least the messages with big attachments) and that the server would hold all his mail for a week and if he got back under the limit, he'd get all that mail.
I offered to let him use my station at the computing site, since all the other stations (all 450-odd ones! :Q) were full, and I was already logged in. He took me up on my offer, and I went to go fix a printer jam. I assumed he'd log into our web-based email client using my account and delete from there.
When I came back, I asked him how it was going. He told me he opened up Mulberry (our application-based email client) and saw all sorts of weird messages that he'd never seen before, so he just deleted them all. At this point, I realized that he had opened up Mulberry using MY account (which authenticates ME automatically into the IMAP server), which means he'd just deleted all of MY email!
:|
I offered to let him use my station at the computing site, since all the other stations (all 450-odd ones! :Q) were full, and I was already logged in. He took me up on my offer, and I went to go fix a printer jam. I assumed he'd log into our web-based email client using my account and delete from there.
When I came back, I asked him how it was going. He told me he opened up Mulberry (our application-based email client) and saw all sorts of weird messages that he'd never seen before, so he just deleted them all. At this point, I realized that he had opened up Mulberry using MY account (which authenticates ME automatically into the IMAP server), which means he'd just deleted all of MY email!
:|
