First impressions and the Status Bar

[Synapse Syndrome]

This is my first post with the new Windows Mail. I've been looking forward
for some real improvements after nearly a decade of using OE. I'm
disappointed that there aren't any more processing rules, and I feel that a
lot more could have been done. Nice to see the back of .dbx files though.

It's going to take a little time to get used to the new look. The difference
between a read message and an unread message doesn't seem so easy to see,
and all the icons are a step backwards when it comes to clarity. I suppose
I'll get used to it.

My first complaint/question: What has happened to the status bar? Why
isn't it telling me how many posts have been downloaded, how many unread,
and how many headers are being downloaded?

Is there anyway to re-enable its usefulness?

ss.

PS. While I spell checked this I noticed another crap thing: The way the
dialogue box pulsates within each error stop. I guess that's more of a Vista
thing though.

 

[Tom Koch]

My first complaint/question: What has happened to the status bar? Why isn't
it telling me how many posts have been downloaded, how many unread, and how
many headers are being downloaded?

Is there anyway to re-enable its usefulness?

I'm not on my Vista box right now, but I'm pretty sure it's still there where
it always was: click Layout on the View menu and check the box for "Status
bar".

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I'm not on my Vista box right now, but I'm pretty sure it's still there
where it always was: click Layout on the View menu and check the box for
"Status bar".

Hmmn, yes it has started working as it did in OE now. It was there before,
when I posted that, but the status bar wasn't showing any information. But
now it's okay. Weird.

Cheers

ss.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Some have reported (and I've found) that you have to kick start it awhile,
and then it starts working okay. Takes several times of setting View |
Columns, etc. before they get remembered.

Probably something in the code.

<g>

steve

 

[R. C. White, MVP]

Hi, Steve - and Tom - and Synapse Syndrome.

This is a bug that I reported several times during the beta. But it's
intermittent and I have no idea how to make it happen. Microsoft never
could reproduce it. But it definitely happens, usually here in the
Microsoft Communities newsgroups. I sent them a screenshot once, but it
didn't impress anybody.

In fact, it's happening right now! The Status Bar is there, all right, just
where it should be, on the line just above the Taskbar. But it's BLANK!
Just a solid grey bar, wall to wall. I'm attaching a JPG to this post,
using the Snipping Tool. Let's see how it looks in that.

....


Hmmm... Well, I thought I sent this hours ago, but it's still in my Outbox.
And another attempt to Send gets an error message that it's "too big". My
Snip was 77 KB. But all it shows is a blank Status Bar. So I'll send this
without a snip and see what happens. (After closing and restarting WM, my
Status Bar is back.)

By the way, my bug (#176213) was closed, then reopened, with the caveat that
it may not get fixed before Vista RTM. :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 RC2 Build 5744)

 

[R. C. White, MVP]

Hi, Steve.

By the way, you and I are using WM build 5744. Synapse Syndrome's headers
show that he is using "X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.5840.16384".

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 RC2 Build 5744)

 

[Steve Cochran]

Yeah, he indicated he has that build.

steve

Hi, Steve.

By the way, you and I are using WM build 5744. Synapse Syndrome's headers
show that he is using "X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail
6.0.5840.16384".

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 RC2 Build 5744)

 

[Steve Cochran]

I get sporadic stuff in the status bar. Very often just the "View applied"
without the message count.

The server has a size limit on the messages. Its either 80 or 100 KBytes
because that was the only way they could block the swen virus a few years
ago.

steve