[gotmail] Inboxloc problem

[Stephen Beaudry]

I have an idea where to start troubleshooting for those people having the
'inboxloc' problem.  Could Any of the people who have volunteered to help,
and who are experiencing this problem try the following.  The goal of this
is to tell me the actual location of your inbox, so I can start to get an
idea why it's not working.

        1) Open www.hotmail.com in a regular browser window under Microsoft 
Windows
(I know, I know :)
        2) login as a regular, real user would.
        3) Once logged in, you should have 4 tabs somewhere near the top of the
window, labeled "Today",
           "Mail", "Calendar", and "Contacts".
        4) RIGHT-click on the "Mail" tab, and select "Copy Shortcut"
        5) Paste the result into Notepad, or some other text editor.
        6) The link will have an identifying session number in it...  In the
following example, this is the
           part after the "&a=", right up to the "&fti=yes".  If you're 
concerned
about security (you should
           be), rplace a few of these digits with your own random numbers.
        7) Copy this line, and Paste the result into an e-mail to the list.

It should look something like the following
http://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/HoTMaiL?curmbox=F000000001&a=f1504
51291d849eaf4319f416324dc5a&fti=yes


This should give the ones of us that are not experiencing the problem some
possible insight into what the trouble might be.  Of course, those that are
creative will find 342 different ways to accomplish the same task.  This is
just the one that I happened to be able to document step-by-step from the
workstation I'm at now.

Thanks,

and cheers,

...Steve...


-----Original Message-----
From: v. vergu [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:20 PM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: RE: [gotmail] Ok, here's another one


Hey,
I can be your guinea pig aswell. Especially because last version you John
made still doesn't work for me. Just as other people are saying..:
Hotmail's page structure has changed! (inboxloc)

Vlad

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
Stephen Beaudry
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:41 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [gotmail] Ok, here's another one


Hey folks,

   Sorry for my apparent absence today, after being so involved yesterday.
 Amazing how many things can go wrong on a network in a single morning
:)  Guess I don't have to tell that to the good folks at Savannah.

   Congrats to you John, as the version you sent works admirably in my
setup.  I didn't get a chance to test it until just a few minutes ago.
I was almost hoping it wouldn't work for me, exhibiting the same errors
as for the other fine folks who have reported it.  Unfortunately, I
can't see any reason for the error either.

   I am still concerned about the "member services" e-mails, as they were
definitely causing gotmail to die on my system, because no "<pre>" tag
could be found in the whole e-mail.

   I did notice one more thing worth mentioning.  In the e-mails that
don't appear to have "<pre>" tags, which I think are probably all HTML
formatted messages, Hotmail appears to be using a Style sheet with the
"PRE" directive as part of the style.  At least this "pre" keyword can
be found, but I don't believe the same split routines we're using now
will work.  I'll continue to look at this, and try to find something
more concrete.

Cheers,

...Steve...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> John Fruetel
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:26 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [gotmail] Ok, here's another one
>
> Boy, I'm really not sure.  I'm a little confused on how the first patch
> could work, but not the new versions.  What's really surprising me is
> that
> the latest version seems to work fine for some people, but not others.
> And
> since it always seems to work fine for me, it might be a little tough
> for me
> to debug.
>
> Wait a minute. Version 7.10?  My gotmail is based on 7.9, the latest one
> I
> had.  Maybe that's the problem?  Since Savanah is dead, can someone post
> the
> ORIGINAL 7.10 code to the mailing list?
>
> Also, instead of me posting new versions to the mailing list, can I get
> a
> few volunteers to try the next versions?  Since I have no way of telling
> if
> my changes will address other peoples problems (it always works for me),
>
> I'll need a few guinea pigs to send versions to for testing.
>
>>From: address@hidden
>>Reply-To: address@hidden
>>To: address@hidden
>>CC: address@hidden
>>Subject: Re: [gotmail] Ok, here's another one
>>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:28:57 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>Strange, I keep getting the same result when running the new versions
> that
>>you send.
>>I downloaded the zip, unzipped it and the end result I get is the
>>following.
>>
>>Hotmail's page structure has changed! (inboxloc)
>>
>>Any ideas? I did have success by patching gotmail 0.7.10 w/ the first
>>patch that was sent and by setting the folders option.
>>
>> > Ok, I've taken another look and addressed most of the issues brought
> up
>>by
>> > you folks.
>> >
>> > This version doesn't require the --folders "Inbox" parameter and it
> will
>> > let
>> > you delete stuff from the Junk E-Mail folder, or any other folder
> I'm
>> > almost sure some other things will turn up, but I've ran it quite a
> bit
>> > tonight and it seems ok to me.
>> >
>> > One thing that doesn't seem to work right are messages from 'Hotmail
>> > Member
>> > Services'.  I have some of those in my Inbox but, unlike what
> happened
>>to
>> > Stephen, gotmail just seems to ignore them.  Stephen says they're
>>crashing
>> > him.  Whatever it is, there is still something quirky in those
> 'special'
>> > e-mails and I think more work needs to be done there.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Stephen Beaudry" <address@hidden>
>> > To: <address@hidden>
>> >>     - The "original" code for downloading the actual e-mail, which
> was
>> >>       commented out [lines 908-910], works, whereas the stuff that
> was
>> >> not
>> >>       commented [lines 898-907], doesn't...  I simply switched back
> to
>> >> the
>> >>       original code...  This gets by the 404 error reported in the
> last
>> >>       mailing.
>> >
>> > Stephen, this doesn't seem right.  Lines 908-910 weren't really
>> > 'original',
>> > it was just something I was trying and didn't seem to work.  I was
> only
>> > able
>> > get things to work right with lines 898-907.
>> >
>> > My mail account is ALWAYS on 'by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com'.  I sure
> hope
>> > that
>> > ALL of the Hotmail servers have the SAME html.  Please try this new
>> > version;
>> > if it doesn't work right, I'm concerned that we might all be seeing
>> > slightly
>> > different web pages.
>> >
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