Windows Mail

Slartybart said:

That make me chuckle ... I thought I was the only one who got up out of bed to post something I thought of

Bill
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Hey Bill,

Yeah sometimes that's where the creativity and answers of things flow isn't it, when you go to sleep with a problem on your mind, and when your brain is off while your sleeping or daydreaming, and when you wake up sometimes even in the middle of the night, the answer is right on the tip of your thoughts.

Hello,
I have been using Winmail in windows 7 for about 6 months and used the tutorial here to make it work. It is excellent and a really good replacement for OE6. I have 2 problems with it that need care and I wonder if anyone else has come across them:

If I highlight a bit of text that I want to spell check and the spell checker finds an error and needs to make a correction when I click OK Winmail crashes with:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: WinMail.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bca09
Fault Module Name: INETCOMM.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17609
Fault Module Timestamp: 4dbf9046
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000079059
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: bc6a
Additional Information 2: bc6ab5fd14147cc7607766fe95c635dd
Additional Information 3: e882
Additional Information 4: e8827cc045f254d715f74893ef683cfc

If I don’t highlight the text it works fine.

The other time it can crash is if I select: file > “work offline” This time it crashes with:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX64
Application Name: WinMail.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bca09
Fault Module Name: StackHash_1dc2
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 0000000000000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 0000000000000008
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 1dc2
Additional Information 2: 1dc22fb1de37d348f27e54dbb5278e7d
Additional Information 3: eae3
Additional Information 4: eae36a4b5ffb27c9d33117f4125a75c2

I have searched the web on both issues and have found little info that applies to WIN7. Any ideas ?

I don't think I posted anything when this started happening to me some time ago because I figured I was probably the only one in the world affected. I even re-did the Tutorial hoping that might fix the problem. So now I must say I am rather happy to see that it is not something I broke. It drove me crazy for weeks and maybe months but as you pointed out Endeavor I finally realized that if I did not highlight anything, every spellcheck will go smoothly with no crash. I lost some very long emails before I figured out what to do or rather what not to do and the retyping was very frustrating.

Hag said:

Hello,
I have been using Winmail in windows 7 for about 6 months and used the tutorial here to make it work. It is excellent and a really good replacement for OE6. I have 2 problems with it that need care and I wonder if anyone else has come across them:

If I highlight a bit of text that I want to spell check and the spell checker finds an error and needs to make a correction when I click OK Winmail crashes with:

Hi Hag,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Yes we are aware of that Spell Check error and is the exact same error I just posted about yesterday in the very post above yours. More is involved that just the INETCOMM.dll that shows up in the prompt. I posted how to get around that Spell Check error yesterday, if you would please read the post above yours - it's easy to get around the Spell Check error.

As far as the Work Off Line error you posted, that also is a known error that will never be fixed and there is no workaround. However having said that, I accomplish the same or rather similar Off Line status by going to the Tools> Options> General tab and un-checking both Send & Receive at startup & Send & Receive every xx minutes... Sure I have to manually click the Send & Receive button when I want to do the task, but I actually prefer it that way without question, for so many reasons, imho.

There are also a few other glitches by using WinMail on an unsupported OS not listed here, but again are minor too.

These are just a few of the known errors that happen with using the old Vista WinMail workaround to make it run on Windows 7, or Windows 8, or now even Windows 10. As I said in my previous post, for me anyway, the few glitches that are presented are minor and well worth still having WinMail to use.

kewl1 said:

I lost some very long emails before I figured out what to do or rather what not to do and the retyping was very frustrating.

Yeah I know that's very frustrating indeed and it has happened to me in WinMail too, and even years ago in OE.

Actually no matter what software program I am working with, after so many minutes of work especially if it's critical, I will automatically go up and hit the File Save button. I especially also keep exceptional backup processes with creating backup partition images of whatever OS I'm creating history on. So many things in life we cannot control, but these backup things we speak of are easy to control and always prove so valuable.

Thank you for your post kewl1, I appreciate your reply and confirmation.

For me this Spell Check issue just started happening right after a group of Windows updates recently, and narrowing it down by using three identical computers next to each other where one having the updates and the others not having them rolled/imaged out to yet, and those don't have that highlight problem and they don't crash when highlighted, logically tells me it's one of the updates that were just done. I could even spend some time narrowing it down to which specific update if warranted. If your's has been doing this for the last year? ...then there must be some explanation for that. At any rate, the resolve is the same, just don't highlight Any text you want to spell check, and instead if you want to just spell check one paragraph out of pages of them, then simply place the cursor at the beginning of that paragraph (without highlighting Anything) and click spell check from there and it will start there, and after you check what you want you can click cancel on the rest of the pages.

ps
I would not be surprised if on some IE update in the future, that any changes they make will further affect this Spell Check issue, and maybe it will be for the good like with what happened for us with WinMail on This Issue, or maybe it will go the other way and make it worse; MS is not thinking about what affects WinMail to the good or bad on non-supported OS's since they don't use it anymore... ...but imho, they should!

Great tip Endeavor regarding saving every few minutes to avoid having to re-type a mountain of work. And in my case I usually cannot remember what all I typed so it involves more than just re-typing. One might think well there are settings that you can check in many apps like Word and Excel that are supposed to AutoSaved as often as you tell them such as every two minutes. But I have found that these to be seem to be very unreliable. Either that or I am doing something wrong. I really need to remember to save manually every few minutes and sometimes I do remember.

i've added in windows mail to my mum's, but now it want to keep asking for the username & password


any ideas why it's doing this?