SillyDog701

[ronm]

Have had this problems several times and just wondered if there is a work around. Using NS 4.8 and WIN98SE.

Sometimes when I finish an e-mail and the the sending e-mail dialogue
box comes up it locks up. You can't close the box or get back to the e-mail composition window which is behind it on the screen. So at that point the only way I have found out of it, is to end the task (Netscape)which means I lose the e-mail and have to compose it all over again.

is there a way to at least get back to the e-mail so I can save it in the drafts folder or set it to send later?

Today was an especially long e-mail that I didn't really want to have to do over again. Again, this doesn't happen all the time but enough to make it a nuisance.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ron

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

[Don_HH2K]

There are a million reasons that it could freeze up on you. And I mean a million. Your best bet that won't take up lots of message space: highlight all the text of your e-mail with CTRL-A, then copy with CTRL-C before you send. That way, if it freezes (provided you don't need to restart your computer), just paste back with CTRL-V and re-send your message, and problem solved.

As for the freeze, there isn't any specific error message you get when it freezes, is there?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (Donzilla/0.5b)

[profman]

Pasting the copied info to your favorite text editor or word processor and, if desired, saving it as a file would be even safer. I used to do this when I was losing important post due to lock-ups at SillyDog.

I no longer use NS4.xx on my Win98 systems, so I can not address the cause, except to say that it should not be freezing up. I would speculate that it could be a connectivity problem with your ISP.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217