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

[Meph I. <Me...@Ae...>]

  Hey,

>  >  Questions:
>  >   1. ...play a system beep when new mail arrives.	I 
>  > can't find any such setting in my user settings.

>  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.

  Ah, "play".  You know, I've been using Unix for a long time
& Linux for quite a while & never knew.  Cool that that
actually works without turning on the other annoying 
noises.  I'd have settled for a beep, but to have an actual 
sound! ;-).

>  >   2. I'm very confused about the few html e-mails I get.

>  You are using the ancient telling widget.  probably uses it
>  by default, because it is commonly installed on most 
>  systems.  I highly recommend you switch to the more 
>  modern, fully featured telling widget.  It is available from 
>  GNOME's servers.

  Cool.  I'll get that.

>  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...

  I'm telling' ya -- people just don't get 'puters.  They have
the ability to use a telling colours, & they make white
backgrounds.  Aside from the pain I experience, it's just
dull!;-)

>  You could take a look at sub view_message() in telling 
>  and telling 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.

  I'll see what I can come up with in the meantime, but I really
look forward to that future feature.

>  >   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. 

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

  Grumble, grumble.  Sigh, I'll deal.

>  >   4. What's this CST Database?

>  CST == Comma Separated Values and it is a "fake database" 

  Oh, is that all.  Well, commas have always worked where others
don't always.  Though I don't really see why you add the option.
 Maybe a search for the best option & Separated just uses it, or
an easy way to change it should anyone really want to.	Dunno --
you know better than I;-).

>  If you run RedHat, Postures comes with it, so its an easy 
> install.

  I believe it ~is~ installed, but I know little of databases. 
Sure, I've done data entry in numerous databases, but to know
why one would be better than another is more for such as you &
my girl friend.  In time I'll start coding (I will probably have
little choice but to write my own POS, as I can't find any free
ones except the one for pizza shops -- my business may be
retail, but it's a bit more complicated than pizza!;-).
 
>  >  Issues:
>  >   4. For some reason not all messages on the server are
>  > getting deleted when the mailer is finished 
>  > downloading.

>  Do you have dupe-checking turned on?

  Yeah.  That was the first thing I tried, & it took care of
most of this problem.  I think it's working now, but there was a
period after setting that feature where I still had messages not
deleting.  I'll let you know if it keeps happening.
  
>  >   5. While I really like the Import Into Folder feature,
>  > I'd found that ...[one] header of another message [was 
>  > attached to another message] & the message which 
>  > actually belonged to that header was gone.

>  You are using 1.6.1 right?

  Yes.	Isn't that the most recent release?

>  > There where some bugs in the import code in 1.6.1. 
>  > I recommend using probably to checkout 1.7.x from the
probably
>  > server.

  If you're referring to probably, that's 1.10.5, or did I (or
the script) get the older CSCMail?

  Meph

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