I hate Lotus Notes

Clicked on one of the emails in the inbox:

So I clicked on the email again. Didn’t work. So I clicked again. There you go. Now it’s working.

Invalid or nonexistant  software…

I was refreshing the inbox  when this little baby caught my attention:

Reeeeaally?

Sometimes  I get really confused by the error messages that I receive. I got a “Delivery Failure Report” regarding an email that was sent to me: “554 Error writing message to safe storage; message could   not be stored to disk”.

What made it really weird was that the email was included in the failure report. Which means that it was possible to store the email and also totally pointless to send a failure report. User friendly, no. Error friendly, yes.

It’s been a while since I wrote anything. Not because I don’t have anything to write. As usual it’s a matter of time…

Current error message: “An error was encountered while opening a window”. And why do I receive this message? Because I have to start Lotus Notes. But I can’t. I should be happy but I have too many emails that I need to access.

Bloody useless software!

I removed my network cable the other day. I still had Lotus Notes running and received the following message: “The remote server is not a known TCP/IP host.”. No shit Sherlock, but there is no “remote server” at all.

“Tack och godnatt”, or “You’re using coconuts!”as we say.

I have already complained about the bad error messages that Lotus Notes keep showing. “Attempt to execute nested form events.” occurs every now and then. To me this says nothing at all. It makes no sense. What form? Why is it nested? Who’s trying to execute it?

I guess the developer responsible for that error message was having a rough time; maybe something similar as what Britney Spears is going through now?

Well anyway, this must be an all time low when it comes to meaningless error messages…

This is also a message I see way to often: “Network operation did not complete in a reasonable amount of time; please retry”.

It makes me wonder; what is a reasonable amount of time? The message usually appears after two to three minutes which as far, far away from a reasonable amount of time. I would say that ten seconds is the limit when waiting for the inbox to be refreshed.

Instead you have to wait and wait, just to get an error message. I mean, sometimes you actually get to see the content of your inbox. That little (one in a million?) piece of hope makes you wait, and wait.

You bastards! You vicious, heartless bastards! Oh… it makes me mad… mad!

About three weeks ago I noticed that I didn’t receive all emails sent to me. Since I couldn’t find anything wrong with my Lotus Notes client (well, at least nothing that would cause this behavior), I realized that I had to call the Lotus Notes support.

After about three weeks of problems they finally managed to get my emails working properly again. All missing emails started to show up in my inbox and I found one especially interesting from the support team:

“Notice,

Since your inbox is too big we have disabled your email account. You will not receive any emails until you have cleaned your inbox, you are allowed to have 300 MB and you currently have more than 3 GB

Thanks

Support team”

I mean… come on! You don’t email someone to tell him that he won’t receive emails! That would be like… like… I don’t know. But it’s really, really stupid. For real.

Or was it error friendly? One thing that really makes you love to hate Lotus Notes is all the mystic error messages. This is one that I see every now and then: “Attempt to execute nested form events.” which makes a lot of sense to the every day user… I mean, we are talking about nested form events here, people!

Did the developer think that it would make any sense at all?
Well, at least I know what to do when I see it; turn off the computer, leave the office and head for the closest bar.