Email Plugin

[colin]

New version which:

Email Plugin

o adds some debug output to one of the config files (uses Logger.Verbose())
o fixes the up/down arrow when scrolling through email content.

Thats all for now till the main design rewrite takes place.

Cheers,
Colin.

[goosey]

I have tried this with my 2 email accounts which have the following pop server formats:
account.nettaxi.com
account.paradise.net.nz

The nettaxi one works fine, but takes ages to retrieve the mail, and the whole application appears to crawl.

The paradise account brings up an exception almost immediately. Is it perhaps that the paradise server has 4 words in the name as opposed to 3?

[colin]

Quote[/b] ]The nettaxi one works fine, but takes ages to retrieve the mail, and the whole application appears to crawl.

Depending on how much email you have in this account and the connection speed will effect this. I'm not doing things optimally yet but plan to rework all that.

Quote[/b] ]The paradise account brings up an exception almost immediately. Is it perhaps that the paradise server has 4 words in the name as opposed to 3

The name should not be a problem, but then again we are talking about computers so anything is possible. What is the exception that is thrown. Also if you try the latest version I put up it contains some debug information that is writtern to the GBPVR.exe.log (or a name like that, in the GBPVR directory order the files based on last modication and you should see it. Its not the native one but the other one) and search for entries which contain "EmailPlugin".

The other thing is make sure you are using the pop3 mailserver name otherwise this will probably fail.

This latest version does not log you password but does log your username and mailserver. Double check these and also let me know what the other EmailPlugin entries are saying.

I need to put more try/catch exceptions into the code to try and handle these errors better and be more informative,

cheers,
Colin.

[goosey]

"Exception of type Lesnikowski.Client.ServerException was thrown"

Content of logs is:

13/08/2004 1:48:20 p.m..206 VERBOSE [2] EmailPlugin: attempting connect ...
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..015 VERBOSE [2] EmailConn: Error is [Mail]
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..015 VERBOSE [2] EmailPlugin: successful? [Mail]
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..015 VERBOSE [2] EmailPlugin: total_messages [0]
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..015 VERBOSE [2] EmailPlugin: Listing from [0] to [0]
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..145 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x50368 wparam=0xd lparam=0x1c0001 result=0x0 : Exception of type Lesnikowski.Client.ServerException was thrown. : at Lesnikowski.Client.TcpTextClient.Close(Boolean throwExceptions)
at Lesnikowski.Client.TcpTextClient.Close()
at EmailPlugin.Email.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
at bv.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at bv.a(Message& A_0)
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..145 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
13/08/2004 1:49:58 p.m..728 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu

POP3 Server is from Horde (Imp?).
PAssword etc double checked to be correct. Works through webmail.

[colin]

Quote[/b] ]13/08/2004 1:48:20 p.m..206 VERBOSE [2] EmailPlugin: attempting connect ...
13/08/2004 1:48:26 p.m..015 VERBOSE [2] EmailConn: Error is [Mail]

Yeah basically it bombing out in making the connection to your pop3 server. I need to put a try/catch exception handler round this. Actually I have changed the error message so if you want to try:

Email.dll

This may help (or not ) Just drop this into your plugins directory and have a look again in the log file for something with "EmailConn: Error is"

Cheers,
Colin.

[AdiLev]

Hi, I am the coordinator of HTPC on the Israel web site hometheatre.co.il.

One of the people there ask for a way to enable PVR via remote command, still withput fix IP. I suggested to send e-mail with header like Record Ch 22 12/04/2005 22:00-23:30

Can your email plug in be converted to work in a loop, and test for command like header for seeting the PVR.


Adi

[paul_austen]

I've just uploaded an email plugin to http://www.bladerhq.com that I wrote a while ago now. Been using it for about 5 months, seems to work OK but it only has basic functionality, read/del emails from pop3 servers.


Paul