I stand corrected on one point: Apparently this is NOT reproducable in the manner I specified below... It must have been a fluke that it failed so many times.. I just tried it again and everything worked fine...
- Greg >Marlyse, > >I really appreciate your help.. I will do the best I can to answer your >questions... > >>I think it changed it's location. Was talking about the Immediately when >>queued option. >> >>So you have that ENabled? With other words, you compose a message and hit >>send and it will close the message and automatically begin sending that >>message? > >Yes, I have that enabled.. If no messages are in my "Out Tray", it >becomes bold and the message goes into a "Waiting" status... > >> >>How come so many messages add up then in the Outbox? Still trying to get >>a picture of your setup. > >Because when they enter the "Out Tray", they are stuck in this "waiting" >status... I was actually playing around trying to recreate this and I >think I figured out a reliable way to recreate this problem: send an >email and cancel the send before it is finished... The message will be >in a "Waiting" status and when you exit Powermail it will complain about >"being connected"... If you continue to send email, it will eventually >get corrupted enough that you need to disable the outgoing queue in order >to get things cleaned up... > >NOTE: I do NOT cancel my emails when they send... But, it does try to >send emails when I am downloading from other accounts, so perhaps it is >unable to connect to the SMTP server because of POP3 traffic - but I am >just speculating here... > >> >>You have some settings where you could play around with and see if that >>changes anything, namely: >> >>"Retrieve/Send from/to multiple accounts" set it to NOT simultaneously >>(under sheduling these options are). Sometimes sending simultaneously can >>hang up an account and get stuff into an endless loop. > >Yeah, I have this set already.... > >> >>Are you continously on a connection, or dialing up each time when sending? > >I have a FreeBSD system which connects to the internet.. All of my >computers connect through this central gateway... > >NOTE: I am sure this is NOT the problem.. I do not experience problems >with any other application on any of the systems which use this gateway/ >router to connect to the internet... Though, the connection does go up >and down - it is always up when I am checking/responding to email.. > >> >>The problem doesn't make sense to me - and the last time we had one of >>these, it turned out to be something quite simple. Thus my questions for >>details on the problem and your specific setup and which specific >>situation creates the problem. > >It seems like a bug/poor design to me, but that's just my gut feeling.... > >> >>---marlyse
