Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

2006-12-06 Thread Barry
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:45:32 +0100, Roelof Otten wrote: Hmmm. I'd regard that as problematic just as well. My IP address is dynamic and has nothing to do with the mail relayer that is set for my domain. A reverse lookup in the HELO state would fail. But still it's what it's supposed to do.

Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Is another type of file for updating TB! available and if so, where? Previously (I've used TBĀ° since v. 1.35), some

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ._)~~ ~( __ _o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 06:30:25 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

2006-12-06 Thread Chris W .
Barry @ 2006-12-06 3:02:51 AM Can someone explain HELO to me? mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My knowledge on this subject is 'nil', hence my original post. However, my newsreader (Dialog) has an 'Advanced SMTP Settings' dialog which allows the user to specifically set the SMTP HELO identification. If

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hi Mica, Thanks for the tip. Wednesday, December 6, 2006, I wrote: I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Is another type of file for updating TB!

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

2006-12-06 Thread Barry
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:36:25 -0600, Chris W. wrote: Unless your local computer is the mail host for kentra.co.uk, you don't want to identify yourself as kentra.co.uk. Something like your computer's name or the-randomly-assigned-name-given-you-by.your-isp.com would work better. Have you been

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Douglas Hinds everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 13:30 you (Douglas Hinds) wrote: I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Something may be corrupt with

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ._)~~ ~( __ _o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 09:00:52 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: If you use Total Commander, you can open .msi files using Commander's plugin (msi.wcx). I also downloaded Total

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Alexander et. al., Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 10:28:16 AM, you wrote: I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Something may be corrupt with the MSI

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Douglas! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 11:06 AM, you wrote: I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Something may be corrupt with the MSI

Re: Updating TB! -- TB with Linux

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ._)~~ ~( __ _o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 11:06:04 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: Is anyone using TB! with Linux? It is significantly slower in Linux, still, and not quite proportional in some

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Douglas Hinds everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 18:06 you (Douglas Hinds) wrote: Something may be corrupt with the MSI installation procedure. Early MSI releases of TB had some problems if I remember correct. You mean TB!3? Yes. I think v2 was not distributed in MSI packages. You

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Alexander! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 10:28 AM, you wrote: the MSI cleanup utility from Microsoft. It can check the database of MSI installations and remove entries without actually uninstalling the program. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 What's your opinion of this

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Mary Bull everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 20:10 you (Mary Bull) wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 What's your opinion of this warning at that website page: Well, its there for a reason. :-) MSI keeps a database of installed programs (well, those programs that were

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mica, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 10:38:52 AM, you wrote: And Winrar still says the file is corrupt. Give up the Winrar, it can't deal with .msi files. Maybe the latest version does. Then you'll see thebat.exe inside, so you can just drag and drop it where you wish. You are

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mary, Mica, Alex and anyone else following this thread. You could try to make a full backup from within TB, uninstall the program completely, and then reinstall from the new MSI (and then restore the backup) to cure the problem once and for all. Unless the problem is with my windows

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Alexander, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 12:54:16 PM, you wrote: Well, I recently updated to FF2.0 - and realised then that I should have removed the old 1.5 installation before. I did that afterwards, and now half of the FF2.0 installation is a mess (I think I have to install 2.0

Editors - external?

2006-12-06 Thread Robert Bull
Hello, All; This is my first post here using TB itself, so please bear with me. I was a point on Fidonet for over ten years, using the mighty GoldED message editor (I'm one of the few - the proud - the REGISTERED). GoldED has a basic text editor built-in, rather like TB's. But it also allowed

Mod: Reply for new thread (was: Editors - external?)

2006-12-06 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo Robert, On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 23:12:39 +GMT (7-12-2006, 0:12 +0200, where I live), you wrote: RB This is my first post here using TB itself, so please bear with me. moderator Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers and not just to the person being replied to, even if

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Douglas! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 3:28 PM, you wrote: ... substitute the old thebat.exe file with the new one. I recall that this used to work for most previous TB! uogrades, and there was also an ftp access with zip files on the ritlab site. ... I could send you PM the beta

Re: Editors - external?

2006-12-06 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Wed 6-Dec-06 5:12pm -0600, Robert Bull wrote: This is my first post here using TB itself, so please bear with me. I was a point on Fidonet for over ten years, using the mighty GoldED message editor (I'm one of the few - the proud - the REGISTERED). GoldED has a basic text editor built-in,

Re: Editors - external?

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Robert! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 5:12 PM, you wrote: ... I dislike Windows-style editors. ... You might like to have a look at TB!'s made-for-The Bat! MicroEd editor. It has a lot of the features which you said you like in your customiazed external editor, and once you had the