Columba

Hi there,

at first let me say WOW! I like Columba. I was fed up with quite a lot of
features of eMail clients and was even thinking about starting one on my
own but then I found Columba.

I encountered the following problems:
When sending eMails I got the following error message:
"
Error while Sending

org.columba.protocol.SmtpException: SMTPException: 501 5.1.7 here is <...>
in that?
"

This problem can be solved by putting my eMail Address (the fromAddress)
in the french brakets (e.g. <myemail@...>). Could also be solved by
adding them inside Smtp.setupMessage() or somewhere in
OutboxFolder.sendMessages().

But unfortunately after fixing this problem I ran into the next one:
"
Error while sending

org.columba.protocol.SmtpException: SMTPException: 503 5.5.2 Waiting for
RCPT command
"
I'm not to sure about this message yet.

Let me finally make some remarks:
1.) After accessing the CVS repository the to external jar files where not
usable. I had to use the jar archives from the Jakarta-Ant package and
from the Sun Forte IDE to get Columba compiled and running.

2.) When I start Columba the second time, while creating the account
during the first start of Columba I receive the following exception (this
does not happen with the released version):

MainInterface
User home: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\ed

** Parsing error, line 1, uri file:C:/Dokumente und
Einstellungen/ed/.columba/account.xml
   Document root element is missing.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing.
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3108)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3096)
        at
org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:501)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
        at
org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:433)
        at
org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:185)
        at
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:161)
        at
org.columba.config.DefaultXmlConfig.load(DefaultXmlConfig.java:94)
        at org.columba.config.Config.load(Config.java:145)
        at org.columba.config.Config.init(Config.java:118)
        at org.columba.config.Config.<init>(Config.java:75)
        at org.columba.main.Main$1.construct(Main.java:108)
        at org.columba.util.StartUpWorker$2.run(StartUpWorker.java:165)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)


So I hope I just configured something wrong and you guys could let me know
how stupid I am.

Edgar