[Virtualacorn-list] Odd problems with VARPC on a Mac, version 2

[Tricia Garner]

On 12 Nov, in article <c99b14fd4f.tim at southfarm.plus.com>,
  Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org> wrote:

> Now that quite few more have joined this mailing list, here's an
> update of my original list of 7th Sept.  About half are new items.

> I have been using VARPC on a new Mac for about seven weeks now,
> probably leading to the virtual retirement of my Iyonix.  We shall
> see on the latter score.  But there have been one or two problems
> and any views on any of them wold be much appreciated:

Just a couple of comments:

>   7. The Mac's Might Mouse has a tiny scroll wheel that works on
>      Mac windows.  I see that others are clamouring for this
>      facility.

The Mighty Mouse scroll wheel is apparently officially known as a
scroll pea - honestly. I prefer to call it a scroll pimple... 


>   10. A curious problem has arisen with POPstar on Virtual Acorn. 
>      It only appears for e-mails to be downloaded that are above
>      the size limit I have set.  Further it only occurs for such
>      files that are waiting when I fire up VA; if they appear after
>      start-up and the first fetch there is no problem.  What
>      happens is that I get from POPstar a warning message that an
>      over-large e-mail is on the server; I tell it to download the
>      e-mail and then I simply cannot find same.  I have turned full
>      error-reporting on for POPstar and it shows that a DELE
>      command is in fact issued by POPstar.  This is a feature of
>      running under VA and I have no idea why it happens.

>      A possible work-around is to use AntiSpam as the fetcher but I
>      can't get that to work either though assistance is promised.

>      If I cannot get reliable fetching via any program on Virtual
>      Acorn I may have to move to Messenger Pro on the Mac, which I
>      have working fine on one mailing list and a couple of
>      newsgroups.

I am using AntiSpam. What seems to be the problem for you? The only
hiccup here is that once in a blue moon AntiSpam throws up the error
'Bad file descriptor line at 1992'. I have tried to ask the AntiSpam
list for advice but my message bounced, telling me I am not
subscribed. Given I used the address to which mails from that list
are sent I was somewhat baffled.

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Tricia


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