Re: general balsa first-time user frustrations

[Dave Della Costa <amarodeeps mindspring com>]

 > get a recent CVS it should be fixed there. some flags wasnt set
 > correctly.

OK, I'll check it out when I get a chance...just got this one working
though (got it to send mail - needed to put the port on the end of the
smtp server address) so who knows when that'll be.


 > yes thats a problem many user have.. i had that one too.. go into
 > prefs mailoption->outgoing and DESELECT WRAP.

Did this, but balsa still seemed to respond to the number that was
chosen before de-selecting wrapping.  Hmmph.


 > yeah... i would have them counted accurately...

Don't know exactly what you mean by this.


 > btw: visit our #balsa channel on irc.gnome.org


K. Thanks. ;)

-Dave D.

Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> On 2001.06.27 01:40:43 +0200 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.
>>
> 
> dunno..
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> get a recent CVS it should be fixed there. some flags wasnt set correctly.
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> yes thats a problem many user have.. i had that one too.. go into prefs
> mailoption->outgoing and DESELECT WRAP.
> 
> 
>>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?
>>
> 
> yeah... i would have them counted accurately...
> 
> btw: visit our #balsa channel on irc.gnome.org
> 
>