Matt and others,
Matthew Scholtz wrote:
>
> Sounds to me like Netscape is queueing your message because there is no connection
>established. Have you looked for the message in the Out folder? If there's a "send
>all queued" command or a "send on check" setting for Netscape, you could try those
>once you dial-up.
Yes, I've checked the Out, or Unsent Messages, folder and it isn't
there. Nor in the Drafts folder.
> It probably doesn't happen with Batch because that's not trying to send the message,
>just compose it.
Yes, I understand why the Batch option works. I just can't figure out
the Custom problem. Where does the message get cued? I did figure out
one Netscape problem, though, which may be the culprit. If I quit out
of a Netscape request (such as to download messages or to access a
website) when I'm OFFline, I get an odd error message which says that
the server couldn't be found - or some such thing. From then on, every
time I try to access the internet via a request (i.e. without first
establishing a connection) I get the same error message and can't
connect that way. I then have to open a connection through Windows
before I can do anything over the Net. If I close Netscape and re-open
it, the problem disappears.
This turns out to have been the case when I ran the last email output.
That is, Netscape couldn't (wouldn't) initiate an internet connection,
and so I suspect the email sat somewhere waiting to be sent. Oddly, it
didn't get sent automatically when I did later establish an internet
connection via Windows.
So, any thoughts, even though it may not be directly an ebase problem?
--
Carl Paulsen
New Hampshire Rivers Council
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> At 06:10 PM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >We are on a dial-up internet access account using ebase 1.02. I
> >recently noticed that if I try to output a custom email without being
> >connected to the internet, my message is sometimes lost in the ether.
> >It is nowhere on the desktop, nor in taskbars, etc. I cannot find it
> >through Netscape, my email program of choice. It is as if ebase thinks
> >it sent the email but it is nowhere to be found.
> >
> >Yet when I go to shut down the computer, I get a warning that there is
> >an unsent message. If I elect to save it (in the Drafts Folder of
> >Netscape), I can then find the message there.
> >
> >This does not happen with the Batch option, where a single message is
> >created with a text string of email addresses to paste into the BCC
> >area.
> >
> >Any ideas what is going on here? What does ebase do with custom
> >messages and why wouldn't I at least get an open email file that I can
> >open and/or edit?
> >
> >Also, I don't believe I ever had this problem in v.1.00. I believe
> >under the earlier version, ebase would output the message which would
> >call up my internet access dial-up routine. I enter the proper data for
> >connecting and the messages get sent as soon as my connection is
> >established.
> >--
> >Carl Paulsen
