freezing Powermail with IMAP
I get a systematic freeze with a very peculiar kind of spams when trying an IMAP connexion. It happens with almost empty spams, that have no title nor contents apparently, only a minimal header (I put one such spam header at the bottom of this email, you will see even part of its header has to be reconstituted). When downloading my mail via the ordinary POP way, such spams are correctly filtered out by SpamSieve and displaced in a spam folder, which I empty before reconnecting. Because I did set that account to erase from the server the messages that I did erase locally, usually Powermail does erase the spam from my POP server, leaving there only the good messages. Alas such a behavior doesn't work for the almost empty spams: presumably there is not enough info in them for Powermail to issue the necessary POP command. So, I think: 'I'll connect the IMAP way, to click on them and ask delete/expunge' This also will usually work perfectly, without downloading anything else than the message headers. Well, it is there I crash Powermail. After the usual series of messages (inspecting inbox...) I get in the end a dialog box saying there has been a problem in sending the appropriate command, and generally even before I click OK I get the colored spin ball forever. I must say, when I kill PM and restart, I don't have any problem with the local database and nothing is lost, but the only way I found up to now to erase such an empty message is to log on in the webmail, and delete it there, from an html navigator. I would understand that PM lacks the necessary data to issue commands, wether in a POP or an IMAP connection, but I find it quite shocking that it dies this way. It is very had to demonstrate imap connections when your software may die because of a spam :-/ Herve Here is the header I recuperated from the last such spam, by asking show full header (once POP-downloaded): -- RFC822 header -- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [218.65.58.38] (218.65.58.38) by mx.laposte.net (7.0.024) id 4036D31A004F69D5; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:40:55 +0100 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (derived from envelope by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:40:55 +0100 (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- -- remove .listes and add a dot after fh please enlevez .listes et ajoutez un point après fh
Burst Digests
I use the Burst Digests script, and lately I've been getting a weird message. It says something like There was a problem finding the scripts. Please ensure that the Burst Digests folder is in the ... As far as I can tell, it's in there, and the funny thing is, the script still works. Anybody have any ideas? TIA. Ron
Re: download weirdness
John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/3/04 9:31 pm Just to be sure, I checked my email in PM, went to mail2web and checked, (it confirmed that the inbox on the server was empty) and checked w/ PM again. Same thing: 3 phantom downloads. Sure it's the same account? -- Derry Thompson g l o d e r w o r k s | Design - Hosting - Programming http://www.gloderworks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 44 (0) 7976 802487
Re(3): download weirdness
you have preference file(s) in your PM folder (wherever you put it, by default installs in the user - mail - pm folder (there where also the message database is). if there are cache files (I don't know) you will have to hunt for in the user library folder (i'd search for powermail and/or ctm and see what you find). ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to Marlyse Comte to have said: might be time to trash all PM cache or other PM preference files Where are they located? (I assume you did all of the common PM first aid options via option-cmd when launching PM). Not prior to reading this, no. However, I have now and no change. -- later, JS We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. -James W. Fulbright
Re(2): download weirdness
On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to Marlyse Comte to have said: might be time to trash all PM cache or other PM preference files Where are they located? (I assume you did all of the common PM first aid options via option-cmd when launching PM). Not prior to reading this, no. However, I have now and no change. -- later, JS We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. -James W. Fulbright
file permissions
I usually use PowerMail on my office Mac, where I'm the only user. On a trip recently, I installed it on an iBook so that I could check my mail. I just copied my PowerMail folder over to the iBook. On the iBook, my account is not the administrative account. When I went to quit PowerMail, I would get a message saying that there was some problem with file permissions and that I should check them for the message database and the attachments (I think). They all appeared to be correct. This seemed to happen whenever I received mail with an attachment. Does anybody know how to fix this? TIA. Ron
