Mail/News Problems & Suggestions

[Jim Sladek]

I am new to Beonex after extensive Outlook Express use and have the 
following comments on v 0.8.1 (website says to report them here):

Mail:

Problem - Spellchecker occasionally crashes (particularly after 
composing a long e-mail) when "Close" is hit with error detail of: 
"Beonex-comm caused an invalid page fault in module XPCOM.DLL at 
0167:603143e0".  Of course, crashing at that point loses the message 
that has been composed.

Problem - When I start MailNews, I would like it to open at the "Inbox". 
  I have tried many entries at the "Mail Start Page" option from the 
simple "Inbox" to the entire actual file location on the hard drive. 
Nothing works - it still opens at the top folder for Inbox and not Inbox 
itself.

News:

Carryovers from the Outlook Express experience:

Suggestion - Include an preference to open a newsgroup with "all threads 
collapsed".  I know the "/" will do it, but since I always start reading 
my newsgroup titles with threads collapsed (easier to go through the 
list), it would be convenient to have it already done on opening.

Suggestion - Include a preference to "mark all as read" when a newsgroup 
is exited.  I know the <shift><ctrl>-C will do it, but (as above) I 
always mark them as read at the end, it would be convenient to have it 
done automatically.

I am exceedingly pleased with the operation and the general stability of 
  Beonex.  In fact, I have already "surgically" removed Internet 
Explorer & Outlook Express and gone totally to Beonex.

Thanks for all the fine development work on this program.

Regards,
Jim