I have been following this thread with some interest as the same thing used to happen to me pretty often with 4.1.2 and the previous ISP that had a very wonky connection. I eventually solved the problem of outgoing messages piling up in the Out tray by randomly changing some preferences related to SMTP settings (I wrote to the list about it at the time I think). Today it happened to me again in 4.1.3. I hit the Send button and did Hide PowerMail in the Finder. About half an hour later I noticed the message still sitting in the Out tray and the progress bar still saying "Sending". I cancelled it and tried the change-to-draft-and-back trick but it didn't work (same progress bar behaviour). I then edited the msg to send via another SMTP server and it was sent immediately. Apparently, the first SMTP server experienced some problems and PowerMail started acting up. Luckily, I don't have the mail volumes like some of the listees here but this is still quite unpleasant and I don't remember seeing or anyone mentioning such problems a couple of updates ago (I think it started with 4.1.2).
Btw, I think I saw someone complaining about having to change the multiple messages' status one by one, but I don't think I have seen anyone responding to that. It's not necessary to do this for individual messages. Instead, select the Out Tray icon, focus on the message list pane and hit Command-A. Now it's possible to change the status for all messages at once. Hope it helps somewhat. Serge PowerMail 4.1.3, OS 9.1 & 10.2.6 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:00:01 +0200 PowerMail discussions wrote: >Subject: Re: Failure to Send >From: "Charles Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:29:37 -0400 > >Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote (03/06/2003): > >>I certainly don't doubt that this problem is affecting the people who >>have written about it, but it has never once occurred to me in a year of >>intense PM usage. >> >>Why would an SMTP server timeout "frequently" as you mention? I've never >>had trouble like that with any of the SMTP servers I connect to. Again, >>no doubts, just a raised eyebrow. Certainly it appears that PM has a >>problem here, but your SMTP server sounds far from guiltless. > >Or the connection thereto. I had this happen frequently when using a >telephone modem and occasionally even using a cable modem, when the pipe >at the server has been narrow. > >Charles Maurer
