Strange Eudora error message
Patty Winter
getting this message when I check for mail:
Error while performing unknown task for <Dominant>.
No response from server for 120 seconds.
The weird thing is, Eudora is sending and receiving mail just
fine. So what might this "unknown task" be that it's trying to
perform, and how do I make it stop?
Patty
Kathy Morgan
Turn on Logging to find out what it is that isn't working. "Logging" is
one of the panes in the Settings, but I think you have to enable the
Esoteric Settings plugin to see it. To enable the Esoteric Settings
Plugin, select Eudora in the Finder and Get Info, then make sure the box
for the plugin is checked. You may have to quit Eudora and restart it
to have the change take affect.
--
Kathy
Patty Winter
In article <1iykfgs.1f6445x1vzcam1N%kmo...@spamcop.net>,
Kathy Morgan <kmo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>Turn on Logging to find out what it is that isn't working. "Logging" is
>one of the panes in the Settings, but I think you have to enable the
>Esoteric Settings plugin to see it. To enable the Esoteric Settings
>Plugin, select Eudora in the Finder and Get Info, then make sure the box
>for the plugin is checked. You may have to quit Eudora and restart it
>to have the change take affect.
Wow, I never knew that I had so many Eudora plug-ins! You're right
that I had to check the box in Get Info in order to have access to
the Settings; I now have about a dozen more Settings panes!
Anyway, logging was apparently already enabled for Messages Sent,
Messages Received, and Alerts, so I opened the log and looked through
it. The only thing that looked plausible was "ALRT 1021." I Googled
it and found a few references, but none that explained what it meant.
I also tried the Eudora Knowledgebase, and after giving up on the
simple search when it "helpfully" kept changing "ALRT" to "ALT" and
then finding every damn reference to Windows ALT keys in the database,
I tried advanced search and got no hits.
However....restarting the program seems to have gotten rid of the
problem. :-) So although I still don't know what was going on, at
least it isn't going on now. ;-)
Thanks, Kathy!
Patty
Sander Tekelenburg
Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
[...]
> Anyway, logging was apparently already enabled for Messages Sent,
> Messages Received, and Alerts, so I opened the log and looked through
> it. The only thing that looked plausible was "ALRT 1021." [...]
>
> However....restarting the program seems to have gotten rid of the
> problem. :-)
If the problem recurs, enable all logging options. It may well be that
this issue is of another type than the ones you are logging now.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
Patty Winter
In article <user-A6CF2C.2...@newsreader.euronet.nl>,
Sander Tekelenburg <teke...@euronet.nl> wrote:
>
>If the problem recurs, enable all logging options. It may well be that
>this issue is of another type than the ones you are logging now.
Yeah, I was about to ask Kathy which options to log, when the problem
disappared.
Even if I do log all options, how will I know what to do with the
results? As I mentioned, I couldn't even find an explanation of the
one alert message I did get.
Patty
Kathy Morgan
> Even if I do log all options, how will I know what to do with the
> results? As I mentioned, I couldn't even find an explanation of the
> one alert message I did get.
If the Eudora site doesn't help, post here. Someone here will probably
know the answer. (It probably won't be me, but almost always someone
will know the answer.)
--
Kathy
Patty Winter
In article <1iykvty.19u99sp1nd19anN%kmo...@spamcop.net>,
Kathy Morgan <kmo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
>> Even if I do log all options, how will I know what to do with the
>> results? As I mentioned, I couldn't even find an explanation of the
>> one alert message I did get.
>
>If the Eudora site doesn't help, post here. Someone here will probably
>know the answer.
Okay, I'll try again:
I opened the log and looked through it. The only thing that
looked plausible was "ALRT 1021." I Googled it and found a
few references, but none that explained what it meant. I also
tried the Eudora Knowledgebase, and after giving up on the simple
search when it "helpfully" kept changing "ALRT" to "ALT" and then
finding every damn reference to Windows ALT keys in the database,
I tried advanced search and got no hits.
Patty