Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
Frog wrote on 11/05/2020 3:48 AM: On 5/10/2020 6:40 AM, Daniel wrote: Frog wrote on 10/05/2020 9:41 AM: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software (I have addressed this problem in recent exchanges on this user group) . I am now convinced that this might be a unfixable problem…thus, I am now looking at removing and reinstalling SeaMonkey on my computer to see if that will correct my newsgroup mail problem. I do have some question I need your help/thoughts/recommendations on before initiating this action. (((Please remember that I am not very computer technical smart and my questions will reflect my knowledge level - my fear is possibly loosing everything on my computer.))) Here are my questions: ---Will removing my current SeaMonkey software have any effect on my Profile and/or my Accounts? It shouldn't effect your Profile information, Frog but, just in case, better safe than sorry ... 1. Click 'Edit' the top left of your SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups screen 2. Click 'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings'. This should display information about your Mail and News Accounts. 3. Select 'Server Settings' on your e-mail account on the left of this new screen. 4. Write down the location mentioned in the 'Local directory:' line of your e-mail account. This is where your e-mails (Inbox, Sent, etc.) are stored. 5. Do steps 3 and 4 for your "Local Folders" account and for each news account you have set up. Also worth while writing down the newsrc file location for each News account as well, if you wish. 6. Completely close down SeaMonkey Browser, Mail & Newsgroup Screen, EVERYTHING!! 7. In your Windows 10, start up your Windows File Manager program (Explorer, is it??) and navigate to the location you wrote down in Step 3 above. 8. Copy that folder (and everything in it) to some other location as a backup of your e-mail account. 9. Do the same things (Step 7 and 8, above) for your "Local Folders" account and for each on your News accounts. So now that you have a basic back-up of your profile . ---Should I make a backup of my SeaMonkey folders (i.e. Address Book, Inbox, etc.) before taking this action? See above for most of this no copy of the addressbook made as yet! 10. In your Windows File Manager program, do a search for 'Bookmarks' (without the inverted commas) and look for a file called 'Bookmarks' (no extension). Click on each one (newest one first, maybe) until you get a screen that has similar web addresses as you would expect to find in your SeaMonkey Browser screen. 11. In your Windows Explorer, make a copy of your 'Bookmarks' file to a similar location that you copied your Mail and News accounts. ---Will this action have any possible effect on my email messages and/or user group messages? Not normally, but if you make copies, as I directed above, all is recoverable! ---Will this action possibly fix my problem of not being able to open user group messages in SeaMonkey? I don't know, Frog, I'm tending towards 'No', but, at the very least, having copies of your e-mail and news accounts, and your Bookmarks can't hurt, can it?? FYI, it has been a long time since my present software was installed and there have been a number of updates since that time. All updates were allowed to write over my existing software...no start over new has been involved for many years. I welcome your advice on this subject. Frog See how you go, Frog, and report back! Well, Daniel, I have copied (on my E Drive) all of the files included in your message (I hope). In fact, I have three files on my E Drive that are normally found on most user C Drives. The three files are: SeaM_About Config - Dated 2011 SeaMonkey AddBk - Dated 2011 SeaMonkey Profile - Dated 2020 I wonder if either of the first two (2011) folders are of any value today. All three these files, however, have been copied into a new folder my E Drive. I did make a search elsewhere for a later address book file, bookmark file, and a config file with no success. Could it be that a later version of these 2011 folders, and the files I can't seem to locate, are all included in the Profile folder that I did copy? Again, I really appreciate your help. Frog No need to guess (in this case), Frog. Double click on you 'SeaMonkey Profile' Folder and see what files it contains. -- Daniel Win7 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134 Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/10/2020 6:40 AM, Daniel wrote: Frog wrote on 10/05/2020 9:41 AM: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software (I have addressed this problem in recent exchanges on this user group) . I am now convinced that this might be a unfixable problem…thus, I am now looking at removing and reinstalling SeaMonkey on my computer to see if that will correct my newsgroup mail problem. I do have some question I need your help/thoughts/recommendations on before initiating this action. (((Please remember that I am not very computer technical smart and my questions will reflect my knowledge level - my fear is possibly loosing everything on my computer.))) Here are my questions: ---Will removing my current SeaMonkey software have any effect on my Profile and/or my Accounts? It shouldn't effect your Profile information, Frog but, just in case, better safe than sorry ... 1. Click 'Edit' the top left of your SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups screen 2. Click 'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings'. This should display information about your Mail and News Accounts. 3. Select 'Server Settings' on your e-mail account on the left of this new screen. 4. Write down the location mentioned in the 'Local directory:' line of your e-mail account. This is where your e-mails (Inbox, Sent, etc.) are stored. 5. Do steps 3 and 4 for your "Local Folders" account and for each news account you have set up. Also worth while writing down the newsrc file location for each News account as well, if you wish. 6. Completely close down SeaMonkey Browser, Mail & Newsgroup Screen, EVERYTHING!! 7. In your Windows 10, start up your Windows File Manager program (Explorer, is it??) and navigate to the location you wrote down in Step 3 above. 8. Copy that folder (and everything in it) to some other location as a backup of your e-mail account. 9. Do the same things (Step 7 and 8, above) for your "Local Folders" account and for each on your News accounts. So now that you have a basic back-up of your profile . ---Should I make a backup of my SeaMonkey folders (i.e. Address Book, Inbox, etc.) before taking this action? See above for most of this no copy of the addressbook made as yet! 10. In your Windows File Manager program, do a search for 'Bookmarks' (without the inverted commas) and look for a file called 'Bookmarks' (no extension). Click on each one (newest one first, maybe) until you get a screen that has similar web addresses as you would expect to find in your SeaMonkey Browser screen. 11. In your Windows Explorer, make a copy of your 'Bookmarks' file to a similar location that you copied your Mail and News accounts. ---Will this action have any possible effect on my email messages and/or user group messages? Not normally, but if you make copies, as I directed above, all is recoverable! ---Will this action possibly fix my problem of not being able to open user group messages in SeaMonkey? I don't know, Frog, I'm tending towards 'No', but, at the very least, having copies of your e-mail and news accounts, and your Bookmarks can't hurt, can it?? FYI, it has been a long time since my present software was installed and there have been a number of updates since that time. All updates were allowed to write over my existing software...no start over new has been involved for many years. I welcome your advice on this subject. Frog See how you go, Frog, and report back! Well, Daniel, I have copied (on my E Drive) all of the files included in your message (I hope). In fact, I have three files on my E Drive that are normally found on most user C Drives. The three files are: SeaM_About Config - Dated 2011 SeaMonkey AddBk - Dated 2011 SeaMonkey Profile - Dated 2020 I wonder if either of the first two (2011) folders are of any value today. All three these files, however, have been copied into a new folder my E Drive. I did make a search elsewhere for a later address book file, bookmark file, and a config file with no success. Could it be that a later version of these 2011 folders, and the files I can't seem to locate, are all included in the Profile folder that I did copy? Again, I really appreciate your help. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/10/2020 8:43 AM, WaltS48 wrote: On 5/10/20 8:20 AM, Frog wrote: On 5/10/2020 2:07 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog Well, darn, was hoping that was it. What is your smtp setting (outgoing) for the newsgroup server? Port 119? Yes,the Port number for outgoing is 119 Frog Have you tried setting the news server to news.mozilla.org, not news.Mozilla.org? The same settings in Thunderbird should work in SeaMonkey. The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings...News Server (NNTP)...Server Name is...news.mozilla.org...Port 119...Default 119 The settings in Thunderbird are the same as the above. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/10/20 8:20 AM, Frog wrote: On 5/10/2020 2:07 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog Well, darn, was hoping that was it. What is your smtp setting (outgoing) for the newsgroup server? Port 119? Yes,the Port number for outgoing is 119 Frog Have you tried setting the news server to news.mozilla.org, not news.Mozilla.org? The same settings in Thunderbird should work in SeaMonkey. -- OS: Ubuntu Linux 18.04LTS - Gnome Desktop https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/ https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/10/2020 2:07 AM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog Well, darn, was hoping that was it. What is your smtp setting (outgoing) for the newsgroup server? Port 119? Yes,the Port number for outgoing is 119 Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog Well, darn, was hoping that was it. What is your smtp setting (outgoing) for the newsgroup server? Port 119? Ass I wrote a few messages down in this thread it has nothing to do with the account. The association for news is likely not set correctly. SeaMonkey is not configured as a protocol handler for news. Can likely only be resolved with a remove and reinstall of SeaMonkey and (if needed then Thunderbird) plus setting up the defaults in Windows 10 separately. All removes need to be done first then a reboot and SeaMonkey then installed first. Profile data should not be harmed by this but as usual do a backup. FRG ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
Frog wrote on 10/05/2020 9:41 AM: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software (I have addressed this problem in recent exchanges on this user group) . I am now convinced that this might be a unfixable problem…thus, I am now looking at removing and reinstalling SeaMonkey on my computer to see if that will correct my newsgroup mail problem. I do have some question I need your help/thoughts/recommendations on before initiating this action. (((Please remember that I am not very computer technical smart and my questions will reflect my knowledge level - my fear is possibly loosing everything on my computer.))) Here are my questions: ---Will removing my current SeaMonkey software have any effect on my Profile and/or my Accounts? It shouldn't effect your Profile information, Frog but, just in case, better safe than sorry ... 1. Click 'Edit' the top left of your SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups screen 2. Click 'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings'. This should display information about your Mail and News Accounts. 3. Select 'Server Settings' on your e-mail account on the left of this new screen. 4. Write down the location mentioned in the 'Local directory:' line of your e-mail account. This is where your e-mails (Inbox, Sent, etc.) are stored. 5. Do steps 3 and 4 for your "Local Folders" account and for each news account you have set up. Also worth while writing down the newsrc file location for each News account as well, if you wish. 6. Completely close down SeaMonkey Browser, Mail & Newsgroup Screen, EVERYTHING!! 7. In your Windows 10, start up your Windows File Manager program (Explorer, is it??) and navigate to the location you wrote down in Step 3 above. 8. Copy that folder (and everything in it) to some other location as a backup of your e-mail account. 9. Do the same things (Step 7 and 8, above) for your "Local Folders" account and for each on your News accounts. So now that you have a basic back-up of your profile . ---Should I make a backup of my SeaMonkey folders (i.e. Address Book, Inbox, etc.) before taking this action? See above for most of this no copy of the addressbook made as yet! 10. In your Windows File Manager program, do a search for 'Bookmarks' (without the inverted commas) and look for a file called 'Bookmarks' (no extension). Click on each one (newest one first, maybe) until you get a screen that has similar web addresses as you would expect to find in your SeaMonkey Browser screen. 11. In your Windows Explorer, make a copy of your 'Bookmarks' file to a similar location that you copied your Mail and News accounts. ---Will this action have any possible effect on my email messages and/or user group messages? Not normally, but if you make copies, as I directed above, all is recoverable! ---Will this action possibly fix my problem of not being able to open user group messages in SeaMonkey? I don't know, Frog, I'm tending towards 'No', but, at the very least, having copies of your e-mail and news accounts, and your Bookmarks can't hurt, can it?? FYI, it has been a long time since my present software was installed and there have been a number of updates since that time. All updates were allowed to write over my existing software...no start over new has been involved for many years. I welcome your advice on this subject. Frog See how you go, Frog, and report back! -- Daniel Win7 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134 Linux User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
Frog wrote: On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog Well, darn, was hoping that was it. What is your smtp setting (outgoing) for the newsgroup server? Port 119? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? Thanks for coming to my aid once again...very much appreciated. I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? Thanks for coming to my aid once again...very much appreciated. I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? Thanks for coming to my aid once again...very much appreciated. I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? Thanks for coming to my aid once again...very much appreciated. I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
On 5/9/2020 9:31 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? I believe I have the information you are looking for...my account for SeaMonkey newsgroup is my username vs news.Mozilla.org. Here is what I think you are looking for: Checked - Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
Frog wrote: I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software... Check: right click: news.Mozilla.org then server settings / "ask me before downloading", how many messages is the box number set for and is the box checked or not? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
I Attempting to solve my Usergroup mail opening problem.
I continue to be unable to open messages on this news group while being able to open my email messages on the same SeaMonkey software (I have addressed this problem in recent exchanges on this user group) . I am now convinced that this might be a unfixable problem…thus, I am now looking at removing and reinstalling SeaMonkey on my computer to see if that will correct my newsgroup mail problem. I do have some question I need your help/thoughts/recommendations on before initiating this action. (((Please remember that I am not very computer technical smart and my questions will reflect my knowledge level - my fear is possibly loosing everything on my computer.))) Here are my questions: ---Will removing my current SeaMonkey software have any effect on my Profile and/or my Accounts? ---Should I make a backup of my SeaMonkey folders (i.e. Address Book, Inbox, etc.) before taking this action? ---Will this action have any possible effect on my email messages and/or user group messages? ---Will this action possibly fix my problem of not being able to open user group messages in SeaMonkey? FYI, it has been a long time since my present software was installed and there have been a number of updates since that time. All updates were allowed to write over my existing software...no start over new has been involved for many years. I welcome your advice on this subject. Frog ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
