Re: [CSCMail-Users] Was: Whoo-hoo!; Now: Uhhhh

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Meph Istopheles was overheared mumbling something about this on 15 Jun 2000
11:33:59 PDT

>   Hey CZ,
>  
>    What's up?  I finally got things working, but....
>  
>  >  Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help...
>  
>    I'd like to take you up on this.  I've some questions & some
>  issues:
>  
>  Questions:
>   1. When I'd first installed, one of the settings in a pop-up
>  window (I suppose only for root) was to play a system beep when
>  new mail arrives.  I can't find any such setting in my user
>  settings, & I've no idea what command to enter to play something
>  like a wav file.  I turn esd off because of all the annoying
>  noises RedHat thinks are appropriate, & because RealPlayer won't
>  work with esd on.  Know any way to set that up under these
>  circumstances?

It's still there (no matter the user)  Look in:

Edit->Options->receive

Check "Play sound if I have new Mail?"

Put "play" in for the command, and a sutable audio file in for the sound to
play.
 
>   2. I'm very confused about the few html e-mails I get.  They
>  show up in-line, but are not only with a white background, but
>  have X'd out items all over them & nothing else.  Worse, when I
>  try to open them (or attachments) in Netscape, nothing happens
>  when I click the button to execute.	What's the deal there?

You are using the ancient XmHTML widget.  CSCMail uses it by default, because
it is commonly installed on most systems.  I highly recommend you switch to the
more modern, fully featured GtkHTML widget.  It is available from GNOME's
servers.  Also the folks at HelixCode have packaged it up on their site too,
since Evolution also requires it... As a side note, we allow HTML mail to
specify it's own colors, so if the person sending you mail chooses a white
background, thats what it will have... You could take a look at sub
view_message() in cscmail and prolly figure out how to search for and remove
any background color tags from HTML mail... In a future version, I will make
the option to force a user color scheme.

>   3. I also can't figure out how to move the focus from the list
>  of messages to the body of the highlighted message that I can
>  scroll down the message with, say, the down arrow key.	Am I
>  missing something?

This is an issue with both the GtkHTML and XmHTML widgets... There really isn't
a fix for this at this time.

>   4. What's this CST Database?  On installing, the message had
>  said that no user name or password had to be entered, so I
>  didn't enter any.  Should I have, or should I set that up (if
>  so, how now it's all installed)?

CSV == Comma Seperated Values and it is a "fake database"  It's just a set of
comma delemeted text files.  To be honest, we include support for this mearly
as a convinience and HIGHLY recommend all users switch to a "real" database as
soon as they are comfortable doing so.	I personally use PostgreSQL, and other
use mySQL, and CSCMail is well tested with both platforms.  If you run RedHat,
Postgres comes with it, so its an easy install.

>  Issues:
>   4. For some reason not all messages on the server are getting
>  deleted when the mailer is finished downloading.  I've had to
>  telnet into the server of the default account more than once to
>  delete the messages in pine.

Do you have dupe-checking turned on?

>   5. While I really like the Import Into Folder feature, I'd
>  found that when I'd imported my local pin's in box into the In
>  box folder some messages got the header of another message & the
>  message which actually belonged to that header was gone.

You are using 1.6.1 right? There where some bugs in the import code in 1.6.1. 
I recommend using CVS to checkout 1.7.x from the CVS server.  Soon I will be
packaging this up to a 1.8.0 release, as it is quite stable.

>   6. I'm glad that I can import from (most) any e-mailer, but is
>  it normal for that to be so slow?  I've a P-III 500, 128MB RAM &
>  free space, so I imagine it must be the importer itself.

This will be resolved by using 1.7.x and a real database.

-Steve
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