Why I switched back to Mailwasher 6.1

[Wandering_Bruce]

One other thing you could do is limit how many accounts MailWasher checks at once, this would ease CPU load considerably, though obviously cause the full logon/logout procedure to be slower. Under Settings >> General >> Checking Mail >> there's a throttle there, try setting it to just 2 or 3.

OK, what about the logs? Did you find anything there?

[rusticdog]

Those went straight to programmer, but may explain the freezes. The errors we'd not seen before but we'll be looking at them next week.

[Wandering_Bruce]

Great got it.

Did you learn anything from the logs?

[rusticdog]

In regards to the freezing I didn't as it's all well over my head Am sure programmer though will make more sense of it all

[Wandering_Bruce]

Those went straight to programmer, but may explain the freezes. The errors we'd not seen before but we'll be looking at them next week.

Well, in addition to the freezes, which haven't happened recently, the thing just plain runs slow, and the text is rather small. It's just very hard to use. I've been trying it out from time to time, but mostly sticking with 6.1 for now. It works all the time and is easy to use.

[stan_qaz]

If the text is small for you why don't you use the text-zoom control on the quick display screen to make it larger? At 125% zoom my text is over 1/4 inch high on my monitor.

[Wandering_Bruce]

If the text is small for you why don't you use the text-zoom control on the quick display screen to make it larger? At 125% zoom my text is over 1/4 inch high on my monitor.

I don't think my version has that option. I looked under Settings | Display and didn't see any quick display screen or any zoom options.

[Sidewinder]

If the text is small for you why don't you use the text-zoom control on the quick display screen to make it larger? At 125% zoom my text is over 1/4 inch high on my monitor.

I don't think my version has that option. I looked under Settings | Display and didn't see any quick display screen or any zoom options.

It's not on the Settings Tab. Look for the Quick Display (eyeglasses) on the RH side of the Inbox. It's a pull down list.

[Wandering_Bruce]

OK, that works! Thanks!

[joegord]

I also just switched back.

For what it is worth, for diagnostic and bug-testing purposes,
once I uninstalled the 2010 version, and re-installed the older version,
even the *OLDER* version (ver_6_5_4) experienced the very *SAME* failure
to log in to mail servers that the 2010 version introduced.

What I had to do to resurrect the older version was
uninstall it *again* and this time, remove *all* the
'configuration' settings which the 2010 version
evidently left behind...

After uninstalling *both* versions *and* *both* versions'
configuration settings, the older version reverted to
running as the stable program it always was.

[anniebrion]

That's rather odd as there is no crossover between 2010 & v6, they are completely independent of each other.

2010 stores all its settings in .xml files and v6 uses the registry.

The only way they could cause a problem is if you forced the old and new to install in the same folder.

[stan_qaz]

I wonder if they could add a check for a fratricidal install directory to the 2010 installer, it could either refuse to install into an non-empty directory or clean it out before installing which would remove all of the v6 program files.