Need Postal.dll
derfsch
Senior Member
Experience:
posted 13 April 2001 21:29
I have used Netscape and Messenger for many years. Recently I experimented with Opera 5.10 and Eudora and decided to uninstall them. Now at startup NS gives me an information message:
"You have configured Netscape Communicator to use an external mail program, but since POSTAL.DLL can't be found, Netscape messenger will be used instead."
A search of this forum showed a similar condition by Alex Ethridge, 16 Jan. 2001. He was able to get around by this annoyance by an NS upgrade.
I uninstalled NS 4.75 and reinstalled it. Since the uninstall process was complete including backing up the User folder, and removal of any NS in the registry, I'm not sure where the Postal.dll file fits into the program. Any helpful suggestions?
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Ramona
Senior Member
Experience:
Intermediate
posted 13 April 2001 22:04
Hi derfsch,
Probably Eudora did it to you. Here's what you need to do:
Close Netscape, and press Ctrl+Alt+Del, to be certain Netscape is really closed. Then make a backup copy of the PREFS.JS file. Follow the below instructions:
Open Notepad; click on File|Open and navigate to the PREFS.JS file: C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\yourusername
Find the line: user_pref("mail.use_altmail", true);
Change existing line to 'false': user_pref("mail.use_altmail", false);
This edit should get you up and running. Post back and let us know how it goes.
I see that you are an experienced user, and you may not have needed all the details I included, but for the benefit of others less experienced, I expanded the procedure.
Ramona
The above fix, posted on the snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator Newsgroup, by "Rick".
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Matthias Spaenle
Member
Experience:
Intermediate
posted 14 June 2001 19:41
If you set the user_pref("mail.use_altmail", true); to user_pref("mail.use_altmail", false), Netscape will not give you this annoying warning anymore.
However, it will also not use an external email program like Eudora (as you may see when you click on email-URLs on any page: it will open NS messenger).
Here is the solution I found on another forum:
This one really works and allows you to use any external program (just make sure the directory name for
your email program is spelled correctly in the prefs.js file and you set the above value back to TRUE)
Basically; edit the prefs.js file located in
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\someuser, where someuser is your Netscape profile.
Add the following entries to the prefs.js file, or edit them if they already exist. You can use any text editor (e.g. Notepad).
user_pref("mail.use_altmail", true);
Your path to EudoraNS.dll may be different. You might experience some problem in editing the file as the path might change
after restarting your computer. For me things started to work when I provided the path as:
user_pref("mail.altmail_dll", "C:/\EUDORA431/\EudoraNS.dll");
C:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\
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Eudora as default mail program interacting with Netscape
ISSUE:
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:31:52 +0200
Hi !!!
I was looking about POSTALL.DLL problem and how to work with Eudora and Netscape Messenger at the same time. I found how to solve the problem without unistalling anything:
If you add the following to the [Settings] section of eudora.ini, it will stop this from happening:
ForceDDEForHandlingMailto=1
And it works.
Regards.
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To whom it may concern;
I recently re-installed Eudora 5.1 and when I brought Netscape up, I got the infamous Postal.dll problem. I came to this site and tried the various solutions to no avail. I tried the "user-pref", and then the "ForceDDEForHandlingMailto=1". Still the error message kept popping its ugly face up. Then I remembered that I had made a duplicate copy of my Eudora folder for safety reasons. I added the "Force" line to the Eudora.ini there (in the duplicate Eudora folder), and it works. This is not the folder my shortcut points to, so it still baffles me that I had to change this one.
Point being; if you have a back-up copy, change it also.
Cy Torgerson
user_pref("mail.altmail_dll", "C:/EUDORA431/EudoraNS.dll");
The bug with postal.dll seems to occur because I installed Eudora 4.3.1 in C:\Eudora431
rather than in the proposed directory.
From the Eudora Knowledge Base:
How does Eudora as the default mail program interact with Netscape?
From: "kobily.metaman.maker9"
To: Ramona
Subject: Eudora VS Netscape
kobily.metaman.maker9
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ctorg
Member
Experience: Intermediate
posted 09 August 2001 04:22