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jehrler replied on July 10, 2009 13:26 to the problem "Local Folders have Double Unsent, Double Trash" in Postbox, Inc.:

Unfortunately in this mode the error window, like the settings windows, does not appear/become viewable.

As for network access, yes, the computer has full network access.

jehrler replied on July 10, 2009 00:00 to the problem "Local Folders have Double Unsent, Double Trash" in Postbox, Inc.:

INTERESTING!!!!

After I pulled out panacea.dat *I got the same issue that I had before with my wife's account!*

Here is a shot of her screen before I pulled out panacea.dat



Now, after I pull out panacea.dat this is what it looks like in the local folder (note, there are no mail messages displayed):



This is what a gmail account looks like (again, no mail messages):



In addition, notice that none of the normal gmail mailboxes are included (and none of the icons).

If I try and open the settings dialog I get just a blank screen with only Postbox on the menubar:



So, while your suggestion has not solved the problem, it *has* shown that my earlier issue almost certainly had to do with the panacea.dat.

jehrler replied on July 09, 2009 16:30 to the problem "Local Folders have Double Unsent, Double Trash" in Postbox, Inc.:

Yup. It was weird. Postbox wouldn't display any mailboxes, other than the inbox in her imap GMail accounts and there were no messages in the inboxes. I tried to open the settings window to see if something would show up but the setting window would never appear. There was a blank item in the Windows list but no window and switching to the blank one did nothing.

If we went to the local folders, the hierarchy of folders would show, but no individual messages.

I ended up moving her profile to another folder and restarting Postbox with a blank profile. Added back in the various items, except the local folder, to confirm they all worked.

Then I slowly added back in the local folders but with newly created subdirectories folders. That seemed to do the trick.

As suggested, I looked in the local folder and there are no duplicates. Here is the local folder top level:

jehrler reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on July 09, 2009 00:08:

Local Folders have Double Unsent, Double Trash

My wife's account had a meltdown and, after cleaning it up, we ended up with double trash and double unsent accounts in local folders.

Any idea how to get rid of them?



I've tried deleting the trash and unsent and trash.msf and unsent.msf but that didn't help and there is not two sets of them there.

jehrler replied on July 07, 2009 12:58 to the problem "Local Folder indexing slowdown" in Postbox, Inc.:

Update. She has also been experiencing 90% utilization when switching between accounts. I have about 15%.

I took a sample during that process as well and will attach.

jehrler reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on July 06, 2009 16:23:

Local Folder indexing slowdown

My wife was having terribly high CPU with accompanying slowdown with Postbox (b13) so thought I would reindex. All was going along at a good clip till it came time to index her local folders.

That was very, very slow. I ended up sampling the process so, if you are interested, I can email it. I wonder if PB was trying to index these local folders in the background and that was what was causing the slowdown.

jehrler replied on June 26, 2009 23:13 to the problem "How do I reorder email accounts in the Folder Pane?" in Postbox, Inc.:

Working great.

jehrler replied on June 26, 2009 23:07 to the idea "Easier encryption" in Postbox, Inc.:

Can we please, please get an "always encrypt if possible". This is a tremendous source of frustration in our office!

A comment on the problem "Dragging file into Attachment area from Finder does not work" in Postbox, Inc.:

I am currently fully updated, btw, with 10.5.7 and security updates. – jehrler, on June 17, 2009 18:29

jehrler replied on June 17, 2009 18:27 to the problem "Dragging file into Attachment area from Finder does not work" in Postbox, Inc.:

Well, this happens to me everytime I drag a message in.

Could it have anything to do with using FileVault?

A comment on the problem "Handling of email: in Postbox email" in Postbox, Inc.:

And, at least with Safari 4, when safari sees email:paul@xxx.com it creates a link that opens a new message addressed to just paul@xxx.com – jehrler, on June 16, 2009 22:17

jehrler replied on June 16, 2009 22:15 to the problem "Handling of email: in Postbox email" in Postbox, Inc.:

It isn't a url prefix. It's just that the email signature has this:

email:paul@xxx.com

Postbox converts the above into mailto:email:paul@xxx.com (at least I assume Postbox does it as the mailto is not in the email source and, as you can see in the image, when I hover over the link it is listed as mailto:email:paul@xxx.com).

Is ":" a valid email address character? I didn't think so. If it is, though, then I guess he just needs to add a space.

jehrler reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on June 16, 2009 20:27:

Handling of email: in Postbox email

When I click on a link with email:address@xxx.com in an email in postbox, "email:" remains in the address in the new message window. Thus, the email can't be sent as filled in.

Can you fix it so Postbox strips out "email:" (like Safari does when it sends such a link to Postbox).

Thanks.

jehrler replied on May 31, 2009 14:27 to the problem "Macro programs and PB" in Postbox, Inc.:

Here is what the steermouse developer suggested I try.

Hello James,

Remove '\n ' from PostBox.app/Contents/PkgInfo file
and then move Home/Library/Preferences/SteerMouse.prefs to the trash.
Does this solve?

Yoshi
SteerMouse Team

I didn't actually try this with PB but did with Firefox 3.5b. When I removed the \n from Firefox 3.5b file it *did* allow me to add Firefox to the app list but the app specific settings still did not work.

I ended up using Quickeys to program my mouse buttons because I got tired of having to recreate my steermouse settings after every test because you have to trash the pref settings to get steermouse to recognize the app when you change the PkgInfo file.

jehrler replied on May 25, 2009 13:58 to the problem "Macro programs and PB" in Postbox, Inc.:

Oops. I take back the QK4 problem. That works fine with PB, it was in my testing I turned it off and forgot to turn it back on.

That just leaves the problem with SteerMouse.

And, good insight, SteerMouse *doesn't* work with Firefox 3.5b. In fact, it won't even add it to the list of applications.

I'll pass this tidbit along to the developer.

jehrler reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on May 25, 2009 04:28:

Macro programs and PB

Both the Quickeys 4 beta and SteerMouse have problems dealing with PB.

Here is my issue. Normally I have my mouse's tilt wheel left close a window. But, in PB, I wanted to have the tilt wheel left archive the message.

SteerMouse has the ability to specify the actions a button will make and to make them application specific. Unfortunately with PB, and only PB, the application specific options don't work so I always get the default actions. With Safari, iTunes and the Finder, SteerMouse correctly uses the application specific actions.

Similarly, with QK4 it is not recognizing shortcuts I am making that are supposed to work in PB. When I invoke them using either the keyboard or mouse options nothing happens.

The developer of SteerMouse reported that:

"I found that Postbox.app/Contents/PkgInfo file had a wrong value."

He suggested I try dragging that file into the trash but it didn't help.

QK4 is in public beta

jehrler replied on April 15, 2009 17:52 to the idea "Test Builds for the next update now available" in Postbox, Inc.:

*****We interrupt this report to issue an urgent request to add option to "Require encryption if have certificate" to account security settings*****

Data detector preferences work like a charm. Thanks.

jehrler replied on April 15, 2009 17:50 to the problem "Address Data Detector getting way, way in the way." in Postbox, Inc.:

*****We interrupt this report to issue an urgent request to add option to "Require encryption if have certificate" to account security settings*****

Thanks for the preference. It works like a charm!

*****We interrupt this report to issue an urgent request to add option to "Require encryption if have certificate" to account security settings*****

A comment on the problem "Address Data Detector getting way, way in the way." in Postbox, Inc.:

Done. – jehrler, on April 14, 2009 17:22

jehrler replied on April 14, 2009 17:06 to the problem "Address Data Detector getting way, way in the way." in Postbox, Inc.:

This only happens with certain emails. I can email you the source code of this email so you can look it over. Since it has customer data it is not something I want to post.