IBM Verse - One year later
by Volker Weber
About a year ago (minus two weeks) I started playing with IBM Verse. I can't really use it because it is not nearly good enough to replace GMail or Outlook.com. Today I got an email from Bruce telling me my mail was bouncing because I had overstepped my quota. Trying to rectify the situation, I found that Verse is still missing even the most basic functions:
- There is no indication in the UI that I am no longer receiving mails because I am over quote.
- There is no way to purge old mails. You can only select them from the (inbox) folder and delete them. Which moves them to the trash folder. Which then stops working.
- As it turns out it stops working because it is over quota.
- Unfortunately there is no Empty Trash option.
- You can only select "all" messages with CMD-A, if you clicked in the correct part of the UI first. With "all" it means all currently displayed messages, which is 60 of them. Once you selected them, you can then remove them from Trash. All 60 of them.
I am probably doing it wrong.
Comments
It was a nice idea to create a free, trial Verse environment. But also stupid -- how can you test a collaborative "new way to work" without integrating with all your existing stuff? And when it didn't work they didn't have the nerve to kill it, just left it hanging out there but didn't give it any attention. Sort of like Quickr, Sametime on Domino, Symphony, etc.
You can go to the trash folder, select the messages in the trash using CMD-A and then select "Delete All from Trash" to purge your selected messages from the trash.
Davy, all is not all. All is all that are currently listed. See last bullet point.
