there's a menupoint called send waiting mails under connections. This one does the job. I don't see it as a major design flaw, there could be an error with that message, which has to corrected before.
All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- schmidt-systemdevelopment http://www.schmidt-system.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +31-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:41:33 +0200 schrieb/wrote Olaf Dr?mmer: >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 >> >> >> >
