Re: [gotmail] Inboxloc problem

[Peter Pouliot]

http://by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/HoTMaiL?curmbox=F000000001&a=149328daa9d4831a67df3a5f5a379ce1&fti=yes


> 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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