Comments on: MacBiff: Powerful polling for IMAP accounts http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Karl http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-28463 Karl Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:16:59 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-28463 To Kelly: This is more a usability-problem than a bug: the user has to know, that when using ssl, you have to use the portnumber 993 instead. Kelly was using SSL but left the default portnumber. I had the very same problem and Branden was very helpful with above tipp. Thanks Branden! To Kelly:

This is more a usability-problem than a bug: the user has to know, that when using ssl, you have to use the portnumber 993 instead. Kelly was using SSL but left the default portnumber.

I had the very same problem and Branden was very helpful with above tipp. Thanks Branden!

]]> By: Branden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10818 Branden Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:44:40 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10818 Hi there, Kelly. I'm sorry to hear that you're having troubles with MacBiff. If you would send me an email, perhaps we can figure out what is going wrong. The first thing that I would ask you to do is to run MacBiff from the Terminal. If MacBiff is installed in /Applications, you would just need to do the following: Open Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities Type the following command: <code>/Applications/MacBiff.app/Contents/MacOS/MacBiff</code> MacBiff should then run, and will probably produce some text in the Terminal. Once you get the error like you stated before, quit MacBiff, and copy the text from the Terminal Send that copied text to me at bmoore@forkit.org Hopefully we can get this figured out pretty quick. Hi there, Kelly. I’m sorry to hear that you’re having troubles with MacBiff. If you would send me an email, perhaps we can figure out what is going wrong.

The first thing that I would ask you to do is to run MacBiff from the Terminal. If MacBiff is installed in /Applications, you would just need to do the following:

Open Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities
Type the following command:
/Applications/MacBiff.app/Contents/MacOS/MacBiff
MacBiff should then run, and will probably produce some text in the Terminal. Once you get the error like you stated before, quit MacBiff, and copy the text from the Terminal
Send that copied text to me at bmoore@forkit.org

Hopefully we can get this figured out pretty quick.

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10662 Tim Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:12:35 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10662 Hi Kelly. Unfortuntately I am not very technially-minded, so taking advice from me is only likley to make the problem worse! But I've dropped the developer an email. Perhaps he will be able to help. Hi Kelly. Unfortuntately I am not very technially-minded, so taking advice from me is only likley to make the problem worse!

But I’ve dropped the developer an email. Perhaps he will be able to help.

]]> By: Kelly http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10655 Kelly Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:33:43 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/05/macbiff-powerful-polling-for-imap-accounts/#comment-10655 MacBiff is exactly what I want - something that checks my mail from the server without me having to have mail.app open. But I can't freaking get it to work! I get "Err: (1) Operation Not Permitted" upon trying to check, and there's no documentation of error messages online for me to look at. I'm trying to check my school e-mail from home, so you might tell me to first try connecting to my school's VPN ... but I can check my school mail in mail.app without the VPN connection fine. Was wondering if you could help me out? MacBiff is exactly what I want - something that checks my mail from the server without me having to have mail.app open.

But I can’t freaking get it to work!

I get “Err: (1) Operation Not Permitted” upon trying to check, and there’s no documentation of error messages online for me to look at.

I’m trying to check my school e-mail from home, so you might tell me to first try connecting to my school’s VPN … but I can check my school mail in mail.app without the VPN connection fine.

Was wondering if you could help me out?

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