Re: general balsa first-time user frustrations

[Dave Della Costa <amarodeeps mindspring com>]

Well, damn.  Thank you very much Hal.  That did it.

-Dave D.

Hal wrote:

> 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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