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Yes, the "turn-offability" is a nice touch.
I think Microsoft have actually got something completely right for once!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It's an accident - and if they find out, I'm sure they will correct it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You just wait. They'll find a way to mess something up.
(The voice of experience in dealing with everything MS)
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I believe Microsoft is FAR better than Microchip on that.
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This is classic paradox: you see a lot of "fixes", "improvements", made during YEARS, but.... why the hell THIS ONE BUG is not fixed?! What should happen that company pays attention to your report? Why MOST ANNOYING bugs sit for years?? That's the question!
Why? Here is answers:
1. Company is a moron who needs money - they don't need "good product", they need "soldable product".
2. For the goal above, they need to roll out "new features", not "new bugfixes". Only that way you can say "Our product become more advanced - see that big red button!".
3. Lazy monkeys. They are everywhere! They sit in "tops", they sit in coding rooms, they are stupidly lazy and don't want to fix anything requiring more than 2 minutes. Bastards.
4. Company management just don't see what people wants! (because management is on Bahamas, ha-ha) They don't understand importance of problems - they are happy with just diagrams of LOC. INCOMPETENT MANAGERS are EVIL.
5. Incompetent developers are even more EVIL! All those "seniors", who come from India after 2-weeks programming courses - why you're hired?!! By "best dancer" competition??? What are you doing on positions, where YEARS of serious experience required? Why you touch "architectural" tasks? Who gave you keyboard, at last? 
Incompetence is everywhere. We cannot run thru 'em. Support monkeys, developing stupids... they stop us. Just give me email of "big boss" and sure, next day all these pandas will be fired! Because incompetence is the road to the hell. Slow, far way, but always down. Sigh.........
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You missed some options:
6. The bug only affects a small number of users (or has only been reported by a small number of users), and isn't deemed critical enough to divert resources away from more pressing issues.
7. The bug only affects a small number of users, and fixing it would break something else for a large number of users.
8. The bug cannot be reproduced based on the information provided in the bug report.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Unfortunately I disagree with that "numerology" position! You're poisoned with "facebook".
If most people wants to drink cocktail on the beach, IT IS NOT a rule for government. If most people wants "big red button", it is not what you should do!
"Importance" of bug is a subject for professional evaluation. "Password leaking" is MUCH MORE important than spell error, but how many people reports "my password is leaked"?? Here the point!
Related your items:
#6: OK, at some moment it's not critical. But I never believe bug cannot be fixed for months!! If your team in a permanent deadline, you do it wrong way. If you create new bug, not fixing "old bug", you do it wrong. Time also matters! If you don't fix it for months, do you think I'll suffer? I'll choice ANOTHER PRODUCT and your company fails. THIS is what you should think when looking at age of bug/feature.
#7: it's not an excuse, it's BUG OF ARCHITECTURE. If you break code by fixing bug, fix another code too - it's just dependency! No spaghetti code!
#8: Nice excuse, but not. Mostly people report about real bug and I cannot believe you cannot reproduce if you investigate properly.
My #9: NEVER HIDE INFO from user! Nobody need your idiotic "something went wrong" - gimme exact line and exact reason for failure - believe me, it will lead to fix way faster, than "bug reports" nobody send thru clumsy "register first, please" forms.
And we should not forget about features: they are not bugs, but also not done for years! And it's also task of developer/manager to evaluate it not by "likes", but by "professional opinion". If you do something 99% of the time for 3 clicks, IT MUST be redesigned to do it in one click! "Usability" - not many people understand its importance.
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Thornik wrote: Mostly people report about real bug and I cannot believe you cannot reproduce if you investigate properly.
You've obviously never seen real bug reports! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Do you understand meaning of 'investigate'?
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Have you ever seen a real bug report?
Imagine a million developers reporting bugs like "The wibbly-thingamajig sometimes wobbles, with no obvious pattern; fix it now!!!1!". How much time will you spend "investigating" each report?
Sure, you might send a canned response asking for more information and a minimal reproduction of the problem. But 90% of the users won't bother responding; and of those that do, another 5% won't provide any of the information you asked for.
And then, when you close 95% of the tickets as "can't reproduce", the developers who submitted the reports will start claiming that you're "too lazy" to fix the problem, or suggesting that you're "incompetent".
TLDR: If you want a bug fixed, submit the kind of bug report you'd like to receive on one of your own products.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Of course you CANNOT expect "professional" report from a casual user! But it's your responsibility to create proper window/dialog to fetch necessary info. And under investigation I mean attentive dialog with user to discover all details. Most lazy monkeys in support DO NOT do it, skipping report as "unreproduceable". I never believe user was so care to make report, but decline to provide other details!
A lot of programs suffer from the same idiotically stupid function: error reporting. Instead of doing that in one click, they just make link in "Help" menu, which leads to... "please register on our site to report a problem"!!! F**! I wanna kill every moron who makes such "reporting engine"! Stupid a$$$h*** specially follow hard way to reduce bug reports. Every "register" step is a reason to stop that sh***ty procedure at all.
User is the same as he born, you cannot blame him. If you cannot get proper info, it's your fault. Got too stupid reports? Think what YOU didn't do to make 'em better.
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No time to fix, "we need more featuuuuures!" )) Typical indian development.
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I want to try handling my E-Mail via my Android.
- What do I need to know before I start ?
- What questions should I ask ?
- To whom should I ask them ?
Advice, direction, and suggestions are welcome from all, particularly those who have made mistakes in this arena, and who corrected those mistakes.
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Google.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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What are you actually trying to achieve?
What do you mean by "handling"? Reading? Writing? Archive? Something else?
I use Android and PC, and I will read and write emails on both - but mostly I use PC because can set rules in Live Mail / Outlook which help me to organise things better. For example, I have a rule which immediately deletes all emails from a .RU domain (After I got a flood of spam about ten or fifteen years ago). I also have a rule which deletes anything from SAK so I don't get wound up by "my answer is much better, you should see that" messages. I can divert customer emails to one inbox, and CP ones to another. I haven't found a way to do that with Android email apps.
It also means that only one PC package removes emails from the server - the others just view them - so that I have a master copy which I can archive regularly and which gets backed up.
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OriginalGriff wrote: What are you actually trying to achieve
Ninety Five Percent of my E-Mail can wait. Frequently it can wait a long time; i.e., more than a day.
It's that five percent where the guy is actually willing to contact me like a real human and speak to me (i.e., two living speaking humans in a spoken voice conversation) which I want to be able to respond via E-Mail promptly.
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OriginalGriff wrote: What do you mean by "handling"? Reading? Writing? Archive? Something else
Basically: Read / Respond / Attachment
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Any of the apps in this list good enough?
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=email&c=apps&hl=en
Or do you want to make your own app and look for the e-mail API?
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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DUH !!!
Some things are so obvious that they can embarrass you ! I should examine those in depth.
If you have advice and counsel on any of them, please read on...
What I'm doing is using RoundCube on my host.
My spam control uses a specific E-Mail address for a specific company; e.g.,,,,
- Electric-Utility-01@MyDomain.com
- Water-Utility-01@MyDomain.com
- Cellphone-01@MyDomain.com
- CarPayment@MyDomain.com
Each of those is actually a forwarder to another mailbox.
Roundcube has a neat feature that will place that E-Mail address in the "From:" field should I ever need to respond to them.
That's what I would like to emulate on my Android
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If you are on those who have hundreds of folders and rules set up on the mail, GMail app (which I use for multiple mail accounts) might appear lesser on features to you. It will also be tough to navigate.
Don't fall for Inbox by Google. I find it dreadful. It tries to figure out mail contents and arranges them in some weird way which I, for one, just could not understand.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: If you are on those who have hundreds of folders and rules set up on the mail
I'm guessing I have about 80 or 90
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I don't know if you would like GMail app then. There are other apps you can of course use. MS apps for android (including their launcher) are really nice if you want to give it a go.
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> Advice, direction, and suggestions are welcome from all, particularly those who have made mistakes in this arena
straight forward, just follow the prompts - check your original PC setup instructions on the server name details.
Decide if you want to also read email on a PC (IMAP) or on the phone only (POP - so you don't blow your quota.)
> and who corrected those mistakes
Yup I corrected the mistake: I don't do email on the phone any more. Tiny text, old eyes ....
(for the rare occasion I'm checking for something important web mail suffices.)
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