Olaf, I am familiar with the issue you describe, and like you I have grudgingly gotten used to the habit of checking mail on the road, and when it has not been sent, switching it to draft then waiting and resending.
This Yellow Triangle of Doom is new behavior in version 5. In every case with the mail that got bounced, I did try to resend the emails by changing to draft and resending. I even tried changing to draft and making changes and then resending, but on each attempt at resend they went to lightening-bolts then back to yellow triangles and where never actually sent. The only solution I found that worked for these Yellow Triangle messages, is to copy the contents, subject, and addressees to a new, clean message, and send that. This is now the only way I can find to get around the Yellow Triangles of Doom. If this is the case, then perhaps a Red Stop Sign of Doom would be a better icon, since broken messages sure are not going anywhere fast. Robert On Mon, Jul 12, 2004, Olaf Drümmer wrote: >This behavior is actually one of the weakest points in PowerMail. >Especially when on road in hotels with flaky phone lines it happens often >that a mail doesn't get through. What PowerMail doesn't do though is to >simply try again next time I do a "send and receive all" which I consider >a major design flaw. > >Happened to me a couple of times that I just didn't notice and forgot to >manually cause the outgoing messages to be (actually) sent next time I >was online. > >And (you may want to try this): The only way I got reliable behavior was >to set the failed outgoing messages to draft and then simply send them again. > >It's a bit sad that an email application like PowerMail that otherwise >has many brilliant qualities and features is so weak when it comes to >actually sending emails. > >Olaf Druemmer > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:33:58 -0700 > >>Hello, >> >>I sent a number of messages while at WWDC that originally got bounced by >>my mail server. If I look in the Out Tray, they are all tagged by yellow >>triangles (think caution road signs) with exclamation points on them. >> >>Once I realized that they had been bounced, I fixed the problem with my >>smtp server firewall, but even though other mail was getting through, >>each time I tried to resend the Yellow Triangle "!" notes they would >>change to the Watch symbol for "waiting to send" then once sent would >>return to the Yellow Triangle "!". >> >>It appears that even though I have resent these email with a good smtp >>connection, they are not getting through. >> >>I check the documentation but could find no mention of this symbol, what >>it means, or how to send the messages again. >> >>Help.... >> >>Robert >> >>____________________________________________ >> >>Robert Snyder, Director >>World Campus Data Management Services >>The Pennsylvania State University >>105 Mitchell Building >>University Park PA 16802 >>Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 >>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus >> >> >> > > > ____________________________________________ Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
