On 18/10/05 23:00, "M. Tamer Özsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 18/10/05 12:15, "M. Tamer Özsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I posted two here and asked for advice or others¹ experiences, but did not >>> hear anything back: >>> >>> 1. Fairly regular difficulty in getting mail from IMAP account: >> >> >> I have not experienced this, and I have not seen a great many reports of any >> change in behaviour in this area. The mailbox lock problems are probably >> related to the lost connections - when you try to log back in to a server >> after the connection was dropped unexpectedly most servers will refuse the >> connection because they think you are already logged in - it can take a few >> minutes fo rthe server to realise the connection was dropped. >> > > Probably true, but this is *only* a behavior I experience in Entourage (and > that is after applying SP2) -- it never happens in Apple Mail or > Thunderbird, both of which I tried to see if it is a problem with the IMAP > server (it isn't). So, something is going fishy with Entourage's attempted > connections to the server. Any chance you could install tcpflow and monitor a connection? It may be possible to diagnose the problem > >> >>> 1. Some attachments showing inline: >> >> What do you mean by 'showing inline'? Do you see the raw encoded data as >> pages & pages of ascii characters? Can you forward the headers of a message >> that shows this problem. >> > > Text file attachments are shown at the bottom of the mail using > (or > multiple >'s) as prefixes. These are useless as it is a ton of work to clean > these up. PDF attachments (sometimes) show inline with only the first page > showing and nothing listed under Attachments to download (I am used to the > first page of PDF documents being shown inline as long as the attachment can > be seen for download). The PDF behavior is not constant, but I believe the > text file one is (two emails with attachments had this behavior on two > different Macs; I opened the mail in a windows box and the attachment was > there). > I expect pdf files to display the first page of a pdf attachment in the message window, but it should also show up in the attachments pane. Likewise text docs should not be showing up like that. It sounds like your system's MIME mappings have gone squiffy. Can you create a new system login, start entourage for that new user and see if the problem is still there? -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
