Anyone successfully using a Mailblocks.com account with The Bat? Mailblocks does IMAP only, no POP3. On the advice of Stefan Tanurkov, I have tried to have The Bat access my Mailblocks account and simply take everything out of the INBOX, but for some reason, I get the following odd behaviors:
1. I can do a manual retrieval within the Mail Dispatcher, and it works fine -- but I don't want to do manual retrievals every time, I want my wife and myself to be able to depend on The Bat to automatically retrieve and sort Mailblocks-stored email into the various mailboxes we use. 2. The log says: >4/4/2003, 22:27:49: FETCH - Connecting to IMAP server app1.mailblocks.com on port 143 >4/4/2003, 22:27:49: FETCH - IMAP server authentication OK, server says "LOGIN" >4/4/2003, 22:27:50: FETCH - 1 new messages detected in 6 mailboxes >4/4/2003, 22:27:53: FETCH - connection finished - 0 messages received 3. When I bring up the Bat's Mail Dispatcher and Mailbox Controller, I notice that none of the IMAP folders are associated with local folders. So I use the "Set Destination Folder" capability of the Mailbox Controller, and set INBOX to point at the local Mailblocks/Inbox. I hit Close, and then I close the Mail Dispatcher, and try to retrieve new email again, and I get the same result: The Bat knows the email is out there, but refuses to get anything in; and if I open the Mail Dispatcher and Mailbox Controller again, I find that the remote/local folder association has disappeared. 4. Surfing a lot last night, I found this page: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/imap/TheBat/ which is a description of how to use The Bat with Fastmail.fm accounts, which are also IMAP. So I set up a Fastmail.fm free IMAP-compatible account...which works perfectly. Anyone know of a way I can get my Mailblocks account to work with The Bat without having to redo the manual dispatching with every retrieval? -- Jonathan E. Brickman Why worry about wars? http://joshuacorps.org/fw/ ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
