email-anxiety

When there is so much shit going on at work or in your personal life that you are scared to check your email, fearing that emails will just bring more shit that you will be unable to handle. Also related to blink-and-boom conditions with emails, where you blink and 10 emails drop in your inbox, while you were still responding to the last 50. In blink-and-boom situation, your delirious mind starts to think that somehow the blinking is causing more emails. So you stop blinking - hoping that emails will stop coming or senders of those emails will look at your red teary eyes, have mercy on you and stop sending more emails ( hardly ever works, but give it a shot ).

Email-anxiety killing me this morning Yo ! Who knows what kinda crap awaits me !

by rick-rick-shaw August 29, 2016

Email spoofing

The email version of a prank call.

There is a prank website where you email spoofing someone's email address.

by GKDR2 March 3, 2019

test email

An email, usually very short, sent for the purpose of testing whether the email system is working. The sender's purpose may be:
- to find out whether the sender's outgoing email is configured correctly
- to troubleshoot the end-to-end connection between a sender and recipient

If the sender is able to find his solution with no response from the recipient, the test email will usually contain a terse instruction like "ignore this email."

If the sender needs a response from the recipient in order to complete the test, then the test email will say something like "let me know if you got this."

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subject: testing...

Did you get this?

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subject: test 2

please ignore - just a test - M

by vanilla g-lotto December 19, 2004

Zero Email Bounce

To achieve 0 emails in your inbox. I believe it means to have "bounced up against zero emails". When you achieve Zero Email Bounce, your inbox is not growing out of control, with unhandled stuff. When you achieve Zero Email Bounce your stress level goes down.

I achieved zero email bounce within the first two days after I started using the "Getting Things Done" inbox-management method.

by Odiwan April 22, 2006

Overnight Emails

The emails you find in your in box that get sent to you when every one you know is asleep. These will include offers of generic Viagra, penis enlargement, unique but unspecified business opportunities, lotto or prize draw win notification and of course the classic 'help me share my $5million' offer from a man who may or may not have been high up in the Nigerian Finance Minestry.

Tim started each day at the office, mucking out his overnight emails. How he wished he hadn't filled in his email address on the site that offered cheap Viagra.

by df1968 September 5, 2012

Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder (OCECD)

- noun

1. A psychiatric disorder characterized by a subject's obsessive thoughts and subsequent compulsions to check his/her email.

Tara's Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder (OCECD) has severely compromised her job performance.

by April D. November 5, 2007

email ping-pong

"Email ping-pong" is the act of email correspondence between two people getting out of hand or control.

It usually starts of with a comment, opinion or observation that becomes misunderstood or misinterpreted by the recipient. The recipient then responds with comment, opinion or observation...and so on. It is not uncommon for participants to ping-pong 10, 20 times or more before they realise they haven't got a clue what started it all in the first place!

The act of email ping-pong might start quite innocently!

Ping - Dear ^+*%$#,I noticed blah, blah, blah...
Pong - Dear *£*'@}$, As you should be aware... (how dare you tell me what I should do)
Ping - Dear ^+*%$#, I am perfectly aware... (Get your head out of your arse)

by Spunky Monkey December 3, 2007