Mac Forum / General / Networking / December 2007

Yeaterday I switched to news.eu.easynews.com in my MacSOUP setup for
Easynews. Now, every time I connect a cryptic error message pops up in a
dialog box:
"The server returned an error in response to your NEWSGROUPS command:"

I was looking for an app to check hosts on my network are online.
I couldn't find one, and started developing my own.
http://www.leehanken.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/host/
It has major limitations so I would be interested if anyone had come

I received, as per usual, a number of junk e-mails today.  One of them
was the usual fake "delivery unsuccessful" spam.  This one had my
username but not the correct domain name in the subject header.  What
was interesting is that Mail would not mark it as junk.  I'd mark it as

I am looking for a possibility to perform Jabber based video chats on a
Mac with OSX < 10.4.
Any ideas how/if this can be accomplished?
TIA

I have created a site that conatins some ajax embeded controlsI have
created a site that contains AJAX update panels. This page displays
fine in IE and Firefox, but not in Safari. Safari will render the
header but the content inside both update panels are blank. The html

After upgrading from Tiger to Leopard I am having a hard time posting
comments with MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.5.  When I click on Post,  I MT-NW
seems to post the message then hangs.  I get the spinning beach ball
and either have to wait several minutes or use the OSX Force Quit to

When I open a filter window in the filters list, I can see : This filter
has been used x times since xx/xx/xx (the creation date).
It would be great to know which date the filter has been used for the
last time. So it would be easiest to clean up filters that are not used

Here's my problem.  I've got a recent Imac running OSX 10.4, an old PC running
XP and a new PC running Vista.  They are all on a network in the same
workgroup.  I can connect to either PC from the Mac.  I can connect to the
Vista and Mac from the XP.  But the Vista machine can only ...

I have been trying (mainly as an experiment, but because I later want to
connect to a remote machine) setting up a VNC connection between two
computers on a wired local network.
Vine Server (on a Powerbook) and Chicken of the VNC (on an Intel

Please relate your experience in setting-up and running a VPN for Mac.
Sounds too scary to attempt?

Some time ago there was a long discussion on this newsgroup about VNC
connections, and the advisability of setting them up using SSH.
Leopard now has the screen sharing feature, which as far as I can gather
can replace older VNC connections.

Every once in a while, MT-Newswatcher will crash on my Dual-Core
Intel Xeon Mac Pro tower when opening the article window for a
particular newsgroup. This is repeatable. It will keep crashing on
that newsgroup until I zero it out from the group window. It does

Simon, I was premature in writing that the text encoding error was fixed
in 3.5.3b1.  Here is the error I received; it happens only when sending
a new message, and never when replying to a message or forwarding one:
Text encoding error.

Select the message whose subject you want to change and then run this
script.
tell application "Mail"
  set theMessage to item 1 of (the selection as list)

Mail's preferences Accounts panel now has a checkbox "Use only this
server" for the SMTP server.  If you check that checkbox, then in an
outgoing message, there is a new menu to the right of the "From:" menu
that lists all your configured SMTP servers for you to choose from.