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Epoc Digest Fri, 30 May 2003 Volume 01 : Number 267

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In today's Epoc Digest 19 messages:

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- Siemens S45 Gprs

- Re: E-mail log files

- RE:OT WindoZe help

- RE: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 266 (15)

- Re: Emulator and Win2K

- Re: Drops connection, SmtpAuth

- Re: Purpose of SmtpAuth

- Where to find SmtpAuth

- Re: [EPOC DIGEST V1 # 266 (1)]

- Cheap CF cards

- Series 7 broken screen cable?, Drops Connection, Mail2web, Spam,

- Screen visibilty,

- RE: E-mail log files

- SmtpAuth - Java & Editor are needed!

- Re: Emulator and Win2K/Usage of Epoc Machine

- Synchronize more than one Psion with Outlook?

- How much is a Series 7 worth today?

- Dana update & Treo

- Re: various answers plus

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Date: 30 May 2003 07:03:55 +0100

From: Dick Chatjaval

Subject: Siemens S45 Gprs

Dear all,

Please excuse me if this has been covered before.

I need to buy a new mobile phone and narrowed the choice to Siemens S45 or Nokia 6100. A neccessary feature is Gprs as well as decent battery life.

My first choice would be S45 because of price. Does this work well with either Revo or S7? With the salesperson, I tried to connect in the shop with my Revo but without success. We got to the step which prompts for password but after that a message "no connection" came up.

A few months ago, I was using Ericsson T68i with Revo and had no problems. Using this same setting did not work. Any advice from users of S45 is much appreciated.

Best regards,

Dick

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Date: 30 May 2003 07:39:34 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: Re: E-mail log files

Owen,

you need to create a folder named C:\LOGS\Email which then holds the logs. You should clean up the directory after a long download, because the files can become **huge**!

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 08:16:55 +0100

From: Antony

Subject: RE:OT WindoZe help

Norton Ghost. All you'll need is a blank floppy diskette

Regards

Antony Booth

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Date: 30 May 2003 08:36:32 +0100

From: Malcolm J. Demanuele

Subject: RE: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 266 (15)

RE:

Date: 29 May 2003 14:26:28 +0100

From: Mark Deppe

Subject: Re: GPRS and WAP browser - the solution # 264 (11)

Are you using a series 7 or netbook?

If so you CANNOT enter at+cgdcont=,"ip","wap.vodafone.co.uk" in the data init string, as these machines will only accept 20 characters maximum.

Leave this string blank, and enter the APN directly on the phone. For wap it would be something like wap.vodafone.co.uk, for internet it would be something like internet or web, this is specified by your service provider.

Malcolm

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Date: 30 May 2003 08:39:49 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: Re: Emulator and Win2K

Max,

>I have the installation file, but when I try to install it aborts after installing Perl. >Can anyone help please or point me to some advice somewhere?

If you want to do development, especially C++, you *must* install everything in the root directory of an (typically empty) drive. You can fake such a drive by using the SUBST command, which

assigns a drive letter to an abitrary directory (create a shortcut in your startup folder to recreate this setting on each reboot).

If you only want to use the emulator, you can simply copy the contents of the installation CD (or

the equivalent ZIP file) to a directory of your choice. You will only need the EPOC32 path and its subdirs.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 08:44:18 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: Re: Drops connection, SmtpAuth

Andy,

> ISP is Freeserve. Phone is Nokia 6310i - settings from the Nokia file on MikeMcC's site. Netbook is OS158. Where am I going wrong.

I assume that your machine is sending data too fast to your phone. Have you set up the handshake options correctly? (XON/XOFF aka software handshake should do).

>Should I be looking at SMPTAuth?

No that's a totally different problem.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 09:41:39 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: Re: Purpose of SmtpAuth

Itamar,

>What I still don't understand is, once i am connected to an ISP why do I need to send email from a different smtp server ? Why can't I just use the smtp of the server I connected with ?

You probably do not want to! My ISP is T-Online (DSL), but my email account is with 1&1 who

host my website. Whenever I use the SMTP server of T-Online, they modify the headers and

replace the "from:" field with the username they gave me. I'm unable to send mail with my preferred from addrusing their SMTP server. 1&1 have their own

SMTP server but due to spamming they recently set up a second server that requires authentication. The other one still works but will eventually be taken off the Net.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 09:48:23 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: Where to find SmtpAuth

Hi,

SmtpAuth is on my web site in the download path:

http://www.mvcsys.de/download

http://www.mvcsys.de/download/smtpauth-sis.zip http://www.mvcsys.de/download/epocutil-sis.zip

You'll need both and *must* have Java installed, since it is a Java application.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 09:59:13 +0100

From: Christopher Gharibo

Subject: Re: [EPOC DIGEST V1 # 266 (1)]

How do I open a Revo Plus? Are there instructions with pictures on the web?

Thanks,

Chris

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Date: 30 May 2003 13:10:02 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Cheap CF cards

As promissed a few digests back, I bought 2 1Gb CF-cards for Gbp 399.98 from Park Cameras, www.parkcameras.co.uk.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 30 May 2003 13:10:04 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Series 7 broken screen cable?, Drops Connection, Mail2web, Spam,

Answer to: Christian Roth

Re.: Series 7 broken screen cable? - If you received it in this state, you should make a claim as the guy delivered to you a broken unit without stating it is broken. There is a repair centre in Germany, just look a few digests back for details.

Answer to: Andy Hayes

Re. Drops Connection - Gee, that is strange. I use the S7, also a 6310i with settings of Mike and quite often Freeserve and do not have that problem. However, sometimes messages with attachments just hang, and mostly I have to delete the attachment, open the original, save it again and attach it again to an email before I succeed sending it. In general attachments sent a lot better when zipped is my experience.

Answer to: Mark Deppe

Re. Mail2web - Well, quite easy really. In general I don't need this program and happily use the email program of my S7. However, sometimes when downloading the headers the mailprogram closes itself due to one of the messages that is in the mailbox and the only way to correct this is by entering via the web and deleting the offending message. Normally I can do that at home or in the office, but when I am traveling on the Continent that is a little difficult. So I need it in order to correct the problem if and when it happens.

Answer to: Philip S. Adkins Potter

Re. Spam - Thanks for the info, but sometimes knowing everything doesn't make you happy either <G>. I for myself decided that SPAM is much the same as all the rubbish post I get through my letterbox (even though I always tick off not to receive it on forms) and bin immediately. I look at the headers and first delete all spam and other rubbish before downloading what I want to read (another advantage of the Psion email program, you see the headers first). On my PC, I NEVER open anything I don't know where it is coming from, and certainly NO attachments.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 30 May 2003 13:10:07 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Screen visibilty,

Answer to: Kevin Thorne

Re.: Screen visibilty - Yes, you are right, the screen is a slight problem, but I managed by changing the brightness and moving the screen around until I got an acceptable view. The problem with the 5MX is that when using sunglasses it more or less looks black whatever you do. The larger screen of the S7 compensates for the lesser view and you can follow the route easier and use "heads-up" which is useless with the small 5MX screen. Yes, I power it via the cigarette lighter which works very well.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 30 May 2003 14:38:39 +0100

From: Michael Degn

Subject: RE: E-mail log files

Answer to Owen H. Morgan

> ...Could someone please remind me which folders I need to set up on my

> Psion to log incoming e-mails (including the headers) to text files?

BTW, the virus was the file "movie28.pif" attached to an e-mail from (yeah, right...). The text of the e-mail simply said. "All information is in the attached file." Am I right in assuming there is no way of getting at the header of the e-mail to try to figure out where it _really_ came from once I've received it and deleted it from the POP3 server? <

Dear Owen,

The folders are C:\Logs\Email\

The virus is actually a worm named Palyh and/or Mankx. When activated it'll copy itself into the Windows folder and search for email addresses and then as next forward itself. According to Sophos the worm should be quite harmless.

I received two instances of the bogus mail. The sender of the mail will be either:

Received: from MIKE_OFFICE (ACB26A23.ipt.aol.com [172.178.106.35]) by rawdeal.mobilixnet.dk (8.12.8/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h4LKPYWe090809 or

Received: from MJE-XP ([62.105.140.113]) by tina.andersenit.dk (Merak 5.8.6) with ESMTP id LQA37191

You can identify them by the IP address in the [] which is the spammers own IP address.

When you delete the mails from the POP3 server you cannot retrieve it by yourself again. However, the ISP do keep a copy for a number of years. That's why the police can read the emails of suspected people even if they've deleted it on their computer. Maybe you can ask your ISP to help you.

Best regards,

Michael Degn

Esbjerg, Denmark

www.degn.esenet.dk

www.pdanmark.dk

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Date: 30 May 2003 15:01:21 +0100

From: Marcus von Cube

Subject: SmtpAuth - Java & Editor are needed!

Hi,

I've got a question from Sandeep Singh who is not reachable via his reply address at yahoo.com, so I post the reply here. It's useful for all potential SmtpAuth users:

In order to use SmtpAuth, you must install Java first. This should be available on the Symbian or Psion web site. After you have installed Java, the program can be started and offers a "Settings" button. This allows you to edit the INI file with the neccessary information. For Editing the INI file, Symbians Editor is neccessary. You'll find it on the Symbian web site. The settings are activated

after "Restart" is pressed.

Creating the directory C:\LOGS\Email enables tracing from both the email application and

SmtpAuth. If you have any problems, mail me the resulting files. The contents of the consol can

be written to a text file as well. The location of the file is determined by a system property, "user.home". These properties can be adjusted from a file named "epocutil.properties" located in \System\Java\classes on the drive where EpocUtil (the utility package) is installed.

I'm still waiting for feedback concerning the correct locale settings in various locations. Where is your default documents folder, what is the name of your time zone?

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 30 May 2003 15:14:44 +0100

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: Emulator and Win2K/Usage of Epoc Machine

Max Ozinsky wrote:

> I have the installation file, but when I try to install it aborts > after installing Perl.

Do *not* install Perl. During the installation process, when it asks if you want to install Perl, click No or uncheck box (I forget

which). See the Psion Emulator page on my web site.

salix wrote, re his S7:

> I use sysback to quickly restore settings,

SysBack was(is) very useful to have on my 5. But I find the combination of ResetPlus and AlarmPlus (see www.mypsion.ru/alarmplus.php - for ResetPlus scroll to the bottom of the page) even better. If you have to do a soft reset, simply double-click on the ResetPlus icon in Control Panel, you get a reset and AlarmPlus returns *all* your settings. Also check out the "startup" tab in AlarmPlus for various things you can do.

There is an AlarmPlus for the 5ive (ER3), but I've never been able to get it to work, so stick with SysBack there.

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

Thought For The Day: Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 30 May 2003 15:25:54 +0100

From: Rick Grant

Subject: Synchronize more than one Psion with Outlook?

I have 5 Psions of various types but I synchronize only one of the machines with MS Outlook. Updated agenda and contact files are synchronized from that "master" machine to the others using infrared file transfers. That system has worked well for several years.

But the machine I use for synchronizing with Outlook is starting to act unreliably (It's a Revo). What I would like to know is whether I can synchronize at least one other of my Psions with Outlook without causing absolute chaos in Outlook and in Agenda.

I would experiment but I fear the possible consequences so I would to know whether anyone can say that it is possible to synchronize more than one Psion with Outlook.

Rick Grant

International Strategic Communications and Media Relations

Calgary Alberta

www.rickgrant.com

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Date: 30 May 2003 17:13:35 +0100

From: Philip Bister

Subject: How much is a Series 7 worth today?

Christian Roth asked how much is a Series 7 worth today?

To give you an Idea, Clove Technology (in the UK) have second hand Series 7's for s£170 + vat.

Philip

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Date: 30 May 2003 17:36:01 +0100

From: Jim Watson-Gove

Subject: Dana update & Treo

After playing with the Dana for a few months in order to decide if it will be a workable replacement for the Psion machines once my machines all go belly up (my wife's 5mx just experienced the dreaded screen cable failure and is up for a $175.00 trip back to Psion-USA (or $160 to Canada), I'm ready to

report.

The first observation is that support from AlphaSmart is superb. They have a community Bulletin Board (www.AphaSmart.com) that is quite active, and when you call technical support you receive a knowledgeable helpful human being after relatively short holding times. Support on the BB is of the same quality and friendliness as EPOC digest.

They had a battery software glitch and published an OS update that repaired the glitch. They now have an LCD screen problem that effects a small number of owners, and have both published a recall and sent individual emails as well announcing the recall (machine to be fixed at no cost to the owner).

The AlphaWord spell check is almost worthless and AlphaWord does not allow saving to folders - all files in one humonguos folder. The next OS upgrade (due in two weeks) will have the spell check fixed as well as other upgrades.

I tried IR transfer between the Psion and the Dana using PLBeam. The file transfers fine but shows up on the Dana as "unrecognizable," so am transferring files via PsiWin and HotSynch.

I've been considering a Treo 90 as a pocket companion to the Dana and Staples has a rebate program that drops the price of the Treo 90 to $150 (less than a round trip to Psion for a cable transplant). So I bought one and loaded it up with Wordsmith, Snapper Mail and Backup Buddy.

I am shocked. The thumb-board on the Treo is much better than I had anticipated (no match for the Mako or 5mx, but quite usable).

Wordsmith supports "filing" in the same fashion of the earlier Zaurus's. The agenda and contacts programs are quite civilized, and the Palm Reader is much better than any e-book program I've played with on the Psion. The screen size is good and combined with the color (I never thought I'd turn on for color),it is quite readable. The machine seems to be useless for Sheet applications.

Have not been able to build a sheet to duplicate use on the Psion but it may be me rather than the software.

I see the Treo as a successor to the old Zaurus - I used to love my Z for it's user friendliness and only moved on to the Psion because of the terrible processor on the Z (it could not keep up with my poor typing skills. I've always said that the Zaurus was a very high level organizer while the Psion

was a computer. If the Z had had a decent processor,I would still be there.

I am not a power user of Psion, more of a power "word processor," but for me life after Psion will consist of a Treo 90 supplemented by the Dana. I do my HotSynching with the Treo (which is becoming my main machine) and IR transferring between the Dana and the Treo. The Palm desktop will support

many similar machines as long as the user names are different, but will not support machines with separately set-up software configurations (AlphaWord on the Dana and Wordsmith on the Treo)

I still carry around my Psion for those chores that are beyond the Palm OS, but when it finally dies, Palm OS will be my replacement (don't like WinCe and don't like the cost of the WinCe machines). Thumb Boards are showing up all over the place on Palm OS machines and (IMO) it is only a matter of time

before we see a Palm OS clamshell with a Psion type keyboard. And I bet it will be without cable problems.

By the way, as much as I am impressed with AlphaSmart's technical support, I find Handspring's support so far to be invisible. Feels like their support

for the Treo will be similar to Psion's. Basics only.

Battery systems on both units are excellent. The rechargeable AA pack on the Dana can be replaced with standard AA's in the case of a problem. The Treo will do a full recharge in 90 minutes. Neither unit is subject to overcharge.

The bad point is neither unit has a backup battery but uses part of the reserve to hold memory. When changing out cells (if and when necessary) you have a few minute window in the Dana before losing data. As in all machines,, a good backup regimen is recommended.

Haven't had time to set up SnapperMail yet. More later.

jim - port townsend

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Date: 30 May 2003 21:27:23 +0100

From: Ashley Burrows

Subject: Re: various answers plus

Hi all

Happy Birthday digest and may long it continue, I must also add my thanks to those who keep it going. Well Done...

I Have gone mad recently and bought both a Series 7 , 9210i, & Jornada 720 on ebay Bonus time t work.

I have tried the both the 720 & Series 7 both brilliant at home with Gold card Modem. But out & about had to revert to (Two bottles in the shower) carry two items about.

I got the 9210i as my last purchase. WOW !! this is what the Communicator is all about, this is what the Website boasts I Can have Tom Tom City maps Open, Calendar open, Messaging open, Bounce Open, & still not get the out of memory warning. I can even play my 40 Meg preview of Final Fantasy without any pauses.

The web browser is fantastic. loads frames and Java.

Have signed up to Online banking.

So as a result (shameful as it is to use this space )

I have the following for sale

1- Nokia 9210 unlocked with 32MB MMC plus all the extras

2- Psion Series 7 with Gold Card Modem 64 MB CF card Carry case Psiwin CD plus all extras

3- HP Jornada 720 built in Modem Windows CE 3.1 Cradle and usual extras.

Mail me off list if you are interested in anytNow to the reply's

"Replace backup battery" message in my old Psion days usually meant that the battery contact has come unsoldered from main PCB, a piece of card will work for a while but is not a cure or can it be relied upon in main battery failure. but take the bottom case off and resolder the contact back on.

With regard to the fantastic FREEWARE tube programme,

we all no Rolf has a vast knowledge and is always willing to help us all, if he can, but sometimes we all have to let his comments go without getting to upset about them ! I am sure he would be deeply mortified if someone told him face to face how offensive and arrogant occasionally he comes across.

With regard to Kevin Thorns request, Smartanswer, yes please how to register the demo version, this is without doubt apart from my teasmaid ((an automatic tea making machine that wakes you in the morning with a pot a freshly brewed Tea (English Breakfast) UK only) this is the best killer app for a Communicator. It's an answer phone hat records peoples messages as a wav file, therefore saving you the cost of Mobile message retrieval. Its so versatile that you can have 3 or 4 present answer messages ready and waiting.