Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 1:42:57 AM, scriptur:
> From: Paula Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Question about connections queue
>> What seems to be lacking is the option to delete Actions (or Tasks, if
>> you will) from the queue _before actually connecting_. You can do it
>> once you've confirmed connecting, but if you've noticed by then that
>> it's the wrong account, why would you have to ?
...
> On the Menu bar, Options|Show Dial-up Monitor|Automatically. Under the
> Queue tab, click on the action, press Delete button.
Thanks, Paula - I probably haven't made my problem completely clear. I
had the automatic Monitor Show activated already, but the problem
(bug?) seems to lie in the order of events. Here's another attempt of
a description:
[in having multiple accounts, that is] 1. Press Get New Mail [ and
either select one account, e.g. 'A', or automatically address to the
account 'A' as you're active in it at that moment ] (In the
background: Get Mail from 'A' - Task gets into first position in
queue) 2. "Connect to [A]" window pops up 3. Realize that it's A not
B, change my mind and press Cancel - with the only other option in
that "Connect to [A]" window being to connect (which I don't want any
more, with A) (Note that _invisibly_ and _unalterably_ - which is my
whole point! -, the Get Mail from 'A' task remains (!) in the queue [
unfortunately, that is the idea of a queue: postponing actions but not
the intention. Essence of my problem: I have lost the intention to
Connect to [A], but how do I tell the queue? ] 4. Try and Get Mail
from 'B': "Connect to [A]" !!! window pops up. ( Why? Because I
haven't been able to actually _get_ to the queue and remove the Get
Mail from 'A' task. I have now added a Get Mail from 'B' task, but
this will remain second in order. )
Problem or bug: it turns out I can only actually edit the Actions
(Tasks) queue (and remove the Get Mail from 'A' task, in my very
realistic example) by clicking " OK " in the above, causing the next
pop-up to appear which is called " Dial-up " and includes everything I
wish for (and wish to edit in order to remove the wrong Get Mail
task); the window thus that contains the queue which has always been
hidden up to that point. _BUT_ as soon as " Dial-up " pops up, I hear
my modem ticking: my machine starts dialling up. To the wrong account,
as I haven't been able to Remove the wrong task so far.
O.K., clicking " Abort " in that second window will remove everything
queued and cancel the attempt to connect, but still: this should be
possible to achieve before the modem actually starts dialling, IMHO.
My question remains: has anyone got the same problem (or do you folks
never accidentally want to fetch mail from the wrong accounts maybe?)
and is there a workaround in the Connections or Network Settings?
What I'm looking for as _put into one phrase_:
how to delete tasks in the Get Mail queue without actuallig starting
to dial up the connection.
Thanks.
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Best,
Marc
v1.46c W95B PII266
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