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The Red Button

[quote user="sheldonisaac"][MUCH SNIPPED]
 
> What sense does it make to have the Stop button stay red when you
> don't have any POP/SMTP operation active that can be stopped? And when
> you switch to offline mode, where no POP/SMTP operation is possible,
> but you still have a red Stop button: ready to stop what?

Somehow now that both PM 4.41 and 4.51 are on this computer, even 4.41 
shows that strange behavior.

I looked for this on the community web site, but didn't find it, sorry. 

Thanks a lot,

Sheldon Isaac


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This is caused by keeping WSOCK32.DLL always loaded (cf. Tools | Options | Advanced settings) which is required for preventing Pegasus Mail from crashing while using BearHtml as its HTML renderer if you want to be able to download remote images. As it's mainly a cosmetic issue this hasn't very high priority on David Harris' to-do-list, I guess ...

[quote user="sheldonisaac"][MUCH SNIPPED]   > What sense does it make to have the Stop button stay red when you > don't have any POP/SMTP operation active that can be stopped? And when > you switch to offline mode, where no POP/SMTP operation is possible, > but you still have a red Stop button: ready to stop what? Somehow now that both PM 4.41 and 4.51 are on this computer, even 4.41  shows that strange behavior. I looked for this on the community web site, but didn't find it, sorry.  <p>Thanks a lot, </p><p>Sheldon Isaac [/quote]</p><p>This is caused by keeping WSOCK32.DLL always loaded (cf. <i>Tools | Options | Advanced settings</i>) which is required for preventing Pegasus Mail from crashing while using BearHtml as its HTML renderer if you want to be able to download remote images. As it's mainly a cosmetic issue this hasn't very high priority on David Harris' to-do-list, I guess ... </p>
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Subject: Re: Stop button always red

From: sheldonhCONTROLisaac@gmailCONTROL.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows

Rui S  <rui_sa@myrealbox.com> wrote in 
news:106o55d5fm3jp76sope8mptr6csu5rjbrn@4ax.com:

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> What sense does it make to have the Stop button stay red when you
> don't have any POP/SMTP operation active that can be stopped? And when
> you switch to offline mode, where no POP/SMTP operation is possible,
> but you still have a red Stop button: ready to stop what?

Somehow now that both PM 4.41 and 4.51 are on this computer, even 4.41 
shows that strange behavior.

I looked for this on the community web site, but didn't find it, sorry. 

Thanks a lot,

Sheldon Isaac


&lt;P&gt;(Please excuse: this is a paste)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Subject: Re: Stop button always red &lt;/P&gt;From: sheldonhCONTROLisaac@gmailCONTROL.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows Rui S&nbsp; &amp;lt;rui_sa@myrealbox.com&amp;gt; wrote in&nbsp; news:106o55d5fm3jp76sope8mptr6csu5rjbrn@4ax.com: [MUCH SNIPPED] &nbsp; &amp;gt; What sense does it make to have the Stop button stay red when you &amp;gt; don&#039;t have any POP/SMTP operation active that can be stopped? And when &amp;gt; you switch to offline mode, where no POP/SMTP operation is possible, &amp;gt; but you still have a red Stop button: ready to stop what? Somehow now that both PM 4.41 and 4.51 are on this computer, even 4.41&nbsp; shows that strange behavior. I looked for this on the community web site, but didn&#039;t find it, sorry.&nbsp; &lt;P&gt;Thanks a lot, &lt;/P&gt;Sheldon Isaac
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