Compose Problem With Role "Use SMTP Server"

[M.RossARR]

[Pine-info] Compose Problem With Role "Use SMTP Server"

PC Pine 4.64

Compose a message using a Role designed with the "Use SMTP Server"
option set for an alternate SMTP server, different from the
Setup-Config setting as default. Postpone the message & save it in
"formletter folder", not in "postpond folder". The postpond
formletter message full header can be viewed to verify the "Use SMTP
Server" option is set (X-SMTP-Server = whatever)! All is fine there!

Start compose again with that formletter. However, the continued
composition is missing the "Use SMTP Server" option. I am aware it
cannot be seen in compose mode, but the entry is blanked! If
postpond again, the full header can be viewed to prove that.
Otherwise if the message is sent, the default server takes over
which is proven by send & firewall logs.

However, forward the original postponed formletter message, & the
"Use SMTP Server" option retains the alternate server required! It
works! Gremlins?

Further, if a message is originally postpond to the "postpond
folder" with an alternate SMTP server set, then accessed to continue
compose & ultimately send, all is well. Only the "formletter"
postpond suffers the problem!

Is this compose formletter problem a Pine bug or is there a feature
setup option / workaround, without patching, that I am missing?
(no compile/build capability for patching presently available here)

Is there something I am missing after reading help & digging through
setup-config? Is there something hiding in UW webpages I cannot
find?

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[Matt Ackeret]

Post by M.RossARR
[Pine-info] Compose Problem With Role "Use SMTP Server"

Does the problem also occur with alpine? If not, that's your solution.

When describing a problem, you should always check if it occurs with the
latest version of the software. (I admit I'm sometimes guilty of not
doing this, but usually I try hard to do it.)

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Post by Matt Ackeret

Post by M.RossARR
[Pine-info] Compose Problem With Role "Use SMTP Server"

Does the problem also occur with alpine? If not, that's your
solution.

Whether PC Alpine suffers the problem or not is irrelevant. It is
not a solution, not even an option; as older Windoozz systems
apparently cannot run PC Alpine. I tried to load PC Alpine months
back on this older system & discovered a communications deficiency!

You should remember my inquiry about it on the Alpine forum. I
retrieved a response from Mark Crispin that PC Alpine was not
developed to work on Windoozz systems prior to XP & may not be
expected to function! So I stated I would just dump Windoozz &
migrate to some form of Unix, eventually. I remember you commented
on trying Apple OS X I think, as a joke maybe, but to which I
replied I was not joking. Apple was being considered. Remember?

Post by Matt Ackeret
When describing a problem, you should always check if it occurs
with the latest version of the software. (I admit I'm sometimes
guilty of not doing this, but usually I try hard to do it.)

You should know PC Pine 4.64 is "the latest version of the
software", that code series! Alpine is not the same software, not by
code anyway, from what I read, obviously based on license alone. And
apparently so from my failed attempt to use it on an older Windoozz
system, or else it would work. Alpine obviously demands more from XP
than previous Windoozz systems can provide.

You should always ask or check first, if an upgrade to Alpine is
even possible before critiquing what somebody else is trying to do!
In this case Alpine is not possible! PC Pine is the only possible
software option (Even though its future development is dead!), or I
would not have asked as I did, avoiding Alpine in my query! And that
is why I only posted on the Pine Forum! You should know by now I am
on both forums! Though hardly anybody is on this one anymore. They
should merge the two for simplicity.

Now you could check Alpine out & tell us all if the problem also
occurs with PC Alpine! A simple test! For future ref of course, as I
will eventually dump this Microshaft mess! It would be appreciated!

And Thank You!

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