All,
thanks for the help regarding the Temp Incoming folder.
My next issue is probably familiar to several of you as well. I know
that most of AOL is blissfully unaware that Claris E-mailer exists and
can retrieve and send AOL e-mail using their proprietary protocols. I
also remember when AOL modified their server responses to the effect that
E-mailer times out trying to read "1 of 0" messages. However, another
problem has risen since then, where on most occasions Emailer pauses and
then times-out trying to access AOL at an even earlier point, at
"Checking password". Eventually this problem will be resolved on some
later attempt, and the connection will go through and actually attempt to
retrieve messages.
Is there a solution for this? I know AOL allows IMAP access now, but of
course Emailer doesn't do IMAP.
BTW, I figured out that if I'm checking multiple AOL accounts and one
gets the "Reading 1 of 0" messages, the next retrieval attempt is always
retrieved successfully (even if the same AOL ID under a different Emailer
account), and the successes and failures continue to alternate. However,
if the connection gets stuck at "Checking password", *all* attempts for
accounts in that connection sequence will also fail. No doubt this is
old news too.
Thanks in advance for any advice, suggestions, explanations, or just
commiseration that you provide.
Later.
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Christopher Gill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6/27/08 11:36 PM ->
>cb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6/27/08 10:51 PM ->
>
>>This is a well known issue with OS X.
>>
>>Quit and relaunch Emailer until your Temp Incoming folder is empty.
>>THen toss the Temp Incoming folder into the trash. Close ALL open
>>windows, then launch Emailer. All will be better.
>
>Thanks a lot. Since it's a Finder issue, I just copied the Posix path for
>the folder, closed it and the other Finder windows, and then removed the
>.DS_Store file via the command line.
>
>
>>DO NOT open the new Temp Incoming folder to verify that it has been
>>fixed or you may cause the problem to come back.
>
>I'm using only shell commands to check that folder, which seems to be safe.
>
>
>>The problem is caused by an invisible .DS_Store file the Finder puts
>>into the Temp Incoming folder. It creates this file any time it
>>thinks it needs to store info about the folder (view, sorting, stuff
>>like that). So te act of opening the Temp Incoming folder can cause
>>the Finder to create that .DS_Store file again.
>
>In addition to your fix as mentioned here, I've also put set Spotlight to
>ignore my "Claris Emailer Files" folder when indexing, as suggested by a
>later response.
>
>
>Thanks all.
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