Re[2]: Problems opening certain messages in version beyond 1.49 (was: can't print)

[Richard Stephens]

Hello Karin,

Thursday, July 19, 2001, 6:59:44 PM, you wrote:

Karin> On 19-07-2001 at 11:15, Richard Stephens kindly wrote:

>> OK, my friend, here is the story: (..)

>> I discovered that when I tried to scroll through my messages it got
>> "stuck" on some of them and would not display.  I would click on the
>> message on the upper part of the screen and on the lower part, it
>> displayed a former message.  It happened on just some messages but not
>> all.  The strange thing is that it happened on different messages
>> from the same person.  Some would open and some would not.

Karin> Can you discern any common trait between those messages? For
Karin> me, it *only* hapens on my laptop, and *only* with html
Karin> mail. TB will not display them; and when I attempt to reply
Karin> to such a message, I get a completely blank mail with only
Karin> me as the sender filled in. On occasion, TB will even hang
Karin> on attempting to open such a message and then I need the
Karin> Taskmanager to close it.

I looked like crazy trying to find some common trait in the messages
TB chose to not display or open but there was nothing that I could
see.  Some were html, some were not, some had attachments, some did
not, some had URL references, some did not, and so on and on.  Plus
the fact that by closing TB and then reopening it, I could see the
unopenable mail makes me suspicious.  Add to that the fact that this
is happening to others, the only conclusion that I can come to is that
there is an unidentifiable bug running in the new versions that is
causing conflicts on some machines.  Maybe someday they will discover
it and I can have a fulling operative program...

But I am just
mumbling not really complaining bitterly.. TB continues to be the
greatest mail program I know.


Best regards 
Un saludo de Richard
www.wine-from-spain.com
www.lagamella.com

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Re: Problems opening certain messages in version beyond 1.49 (was: can't print)

[Karin Spaink]

On 19-07-2001 at 11:15, Richard Stephens kindly wrote:

> OK, my friend, here is the story: (..)

> I discovered that when I tried to scroll through my messages it got
> "stuck" on some of them and would not display.  I would click on the
> message on the upper part of the screen and on the lower part, it
> displayed a former message.  It happened on just some messages but not
> all.  The strange thing is that it happened on different messages
> from the same person.  Some would open and some would not.

Can you discern any common trait between those messages? For
me, it *only* hapens on my laptop, and *only* with html
mail. TB will not display them; and when I attempt to reply
to such a message, I get a completely blank mail with only
me as the sender filled in. On occasion, TB will even hang
on attempting to open such a message and then I need the
Taskmanager to close it.

The only recourse seems to be to close TB and then read the
message. TB will allow me to read *one* html mail per
session... (I don't like html mail either, but this goes a
bit too far ;-))

My laptop has the exact same configuration as my desktop
computer. Copying all account information makes no
difference. On bit machines, I run WinNT with SP6a.


- K -

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Re: Problems opening certain messages in version beyond 1.49 (was: can't print)

[Richard Stephens]

Hello Thomas,

Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 11:20:32 AM, you wrote:

Thomas> Hi Richard,

Thomas> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:23:23 +0200GMT (18/07/2001, 15:23 +0800GMT),
Thomas> Richard Stephens wrote:

RS>> I will be happy to explain what happens in minute detail if anyone
RS>> wants to listen

Thomas> Port wide open. Status: listening. ;-)

OK, my friend, here is the story:

Back in January, I bought TheBat (best $40 I ever spent!!) and was
very happy with the program and still am.
Then I got a message from them that there was a new beta version out
(something like 1.53bis, I think) and I installed it.  But I
discovered that when I tried to scroll through my messages it got
"stuck" on some of them and would not display.  I would click on the
message on the upper part of the screen and on the lower part, it
displayed a former message.  It happened on just some messages but not
all.  The strange thing is that it happened on different messages
from the same person.  Some would open and some would not.
I contacted support and Stefan suggested I install another version
that was coming out and he sent to me as an attachment.  I installed
that version and it seemed to work OK but then I discovered that I
could not print anything out (just like on 1.49).  When I reported
this, Alexander suggested I install the new 1.53d version that was
out.  But when I did this I discovered that once again I could not
scroll through or open certain messages again.
Oh yes, during this interchange I sent the messages that would not
open to Stefan who, of course, told me that he could open them with no
problem.  And then he suggested that I just change the exe files in my
folder to switch versions which I also did.  But nothing seemed to fix
the problem.
So in the end, I backed up all the mail files, uninstalled the 1.49
version again and am now using that but am unable to print out
anything without saving the files to another program.
So the end of the story is that I have to choose between two bugs: one
does not allow me to print out messages and the other does not allow
me to view them.  And nobody seems to be able to discover why.
Oh yes, my computer:  AMB 750, 128 ram, 21g HD running W98.
And the truth of the matter is that I do not remember now if I could
print out with the first version or not but I think I could. But now I
can't.
So I guess what I really need is a patch for the 1.49 version that
fixes the print bug but I don't want to install the new version
because I know what is going to happen.

Best regards 
Un saludo de Richard
www.wine-from-spain.com
www.lagamella.com

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Re: Problems opening certain messages in version beyond 1.49 (was: can't print)

[Karin Spaink]

On 18-07-2001 at 11:20, Thomas F kindly wrote:
> Richard Stephens wrote:

RS>> I will be happy to explain what happens in minute detail if anyone
RS>> wants to listen

> Port wide open. Status: listening. ;-)

I'll add. I have the same problem. With html mails only (as
you might recall. I posted about it last week.)


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Problems opening certain messages in version beyond 1.49 (was: can't print)

[Thomas F]

Hi Richard,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:23:23 +0200GMT (18/07/2001, 15:23 +0800GMT),
Richard Stephens wrote:

RS> I will be happy to explain what happens in minute detail if anyone
RS> wants to listen

Port wide open. Status: listening. ;-)

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