Re: general balsa first-time user frustrations

[Hal <klingons speakeasy org>]

A guess on your first problem: did you put the port number (25) after the
smtp server name (e.g. mail.isp.com:25).  Unlike "many" mail clients, Balsa
doesn't seem to assume a port.

On 2001.06.26 19:40 Dave Della Costa wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> Just got Balsa (1.1.6) installed, moved two accounts over to it (one
> consisting of imap folders, the other pop3).  Works absolutely
> wonderfully to read my mail, but I do have some frustrations:
> 
> 1) Can't send mail.  Using libesmtp 0.8.2...tried three different
>      smtp servers, none work.  Why is this?  This is a major downer.
>      And no, it's not because I've got the wrong recipient or any
>      thing basically stupid like that.
> 
> 2) Connected to first frustration; only error messages I get are
>      "Message delivery problem, placing it into your outbox..."
>      This is useless.  I could use a little more information than
>      this.  Noticed some other folks posts they got some info from
>      (apparently) logs...why don't I have that/where does that
>      information go?  Got nothing in any of my system logs.  Hmm.
> 
> 3) Why is it that when I change the option for _outgoing_ word wrap,
>      it determines how the messages I've _received_ will look?  It's
>      not such a big deal, as what I send is gonna be the same as what
>      I read...but maybe the better question is, why the #$*& is my
>      composition window so damn wide!?  What's with the 30 character or
>      so right margin?  I got limited real-estate here folks.  If you
>      don't see the connection, try changing your preview font to
>      something like helvetica at 14, word wrap at 75 characters, then
>      compose a message (oh, my resolution is 1024 by 768).  Ridiculous.
> 
> 4) The 'unread' and 'total' figures seem to disappear (on the left,
>      the folder listings are what I'm talking about) at a certain
>      point...haven't nailed down what this behavior is yet specifically,
>      but they do disappear.  Whazzat?
> 
> Okay, don't mean to sound like a total crank.  I do want to thank the
> developers for building an otherwise fine (from my simple user
> perspective) free MUA.  It's gonna be awesome once I can just send mail.
> 
> Let me know if I need to give some more details.  Thanks for any help.
> -Dave D.
> 
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