mailwasher: error D612

Hi all

have recently installed mailwasher, it seems good (early days yet...)

I've noticed a lot of errors in spamLog.txt which seem to be happening when it is just "ticking over ", every ~70 seconds, quite regularly; example:

Error FFFB485F 9:26:20.106: D612
Error FFFB485F 9:27:30.121: D612
Error FFFB485F 9:28:40.136: D612
Error FFFB485F 9:29:50.153: D612
Error FFFB485F 9:31:00.166: D612

(during this time mailwasher was minimised to an icon in the system tray)

as far as I can tell the program is working OK - in that I've sent myself test emails to bounce and checked the results...

Googling, I find several other people are puzzled by this; but as yet I have no idea
- what Error D612 indicates?
- whether it's anything to be concerned about, or normal to the operation of the program?

any guidance / information / references I could read up, etc... anything and everything much appreciated

best wishes, HJ.

 

My Thoughts.

Question. Why do you have an E-mail checking program running minimized ?

Have you tired just shutting it down completely and only using it when YOU WANT TO check the mail.

I do have Mailwasher but I would NEVER leave it running minimized.

In fact I would not have any E-Mail set to Auto check. Especially when I see some of the PURE TRASH that I see in MW. I had one today that was VERY SUPICIOUS of containing a Virus.

There is TOO MUCH stuff out there today that DOES NOT need our help to mess things up.

BillyBob

 

Hi BB

thanks for the reply

mainly because I only installed it a couple of days ago and am still finding out how to use it - many of the defaults it came with were not set the way I would like - I turned off the all the "timed mail checking" aspects straight away...

but there's an option whereby when you try to close it (X button top RHS title bar) it doesn't, just ends up in the system tray - have just today found that one and turned it off.

The dinosaur is only a humble P1 100MHz, so anything non-essential gets turned off. Has to. Unusable otherwise.

I don't know what it was doing every 70 seconds while "idling" in the tray - nothing to do with checking mail (Kerio confirms this) - but it made the PC busy enough to make the mouse jerky (OK, not hard...)

true words - well said

best wishes, HJ.

 

Thanks for the honesnt answers. Am I able to safetly say " You were learning ? "

Reads like you have it now under control.

I would guess by using Tools/options.

BillyBob

 

re: D612 - not a clue. However, as to running minimized - I sure run mine that way. I have start with Windows disabled but put a shortcut icon to Mailwasher.exe on my IE toolbar and start it from there. Once running, it checks for mail every 5 minutes and continues until I manually shut it down from the task bar. Have close program set to minimize it to the task bar and have no problems. Only problem I ever had was associated with bouncing and this was an occasional series of errors when SMTP server or servers couldn't be accessed - so, turned off bouncing. Runs like a watch.

 

Your call. But I do not believe bouncing is a recomended procedure. It may go back to some one you do not wish it too.

A LOT of trash mail may well NOT COME FROM the address it says it does. You could be sending it back to someone you do not care to. In fact I recognized an address a while back and notified the person. I aksed them to watch for an E-mail from me. I bounced it from here. Guess who got it ?

Also Bouncing only helps to verify your address as correct.

I may be a bit too careful but NOTHING goes out of this machine on its own. ( If I know about it anyway )

BillyBob

 

Rockster2U

I GOOFED. I missed the below in your reply.

I will try to read more fully next time.

BillyBob

 

Hi BB and Rockster

read and noted your replies...

...thanks particularly for the "heads-up" about bouncing - made me do some reading up and yes, indeed it looks like you can even get yourself onto a spam block list by incautious bouncing (if your bounce itself bounces) - something the mailwasher blurb didn't go out of its way to mention... actually there seem to be quite a few drawbacks to bouncing, so I'll be sticking to deleting only (at least until I have a much better suss on it)

While experimenting with mailwasher I managed to generate a "proper" error - my pop server timed out - which caused mailwasher to display an alert box to inform me of the fact.

So I now suspect that there are "errors" (which don't really matter too much)and also "serious errors" (like the pop server timeout) which it does tell you about... and that the recurrent "Error D612" is one of the less serious kind. Perhaps. Will post back with results if I ever get to the bottom of it.

best wishes as ever, HJ.

 

Hugh Jarss:

Don't know what version you're running but the latest release, 4.1, has been running almost flawlessly for me. Absolutely love this program. Hope you get to the bottom of it, sorry to be of no help re: D612 Error. Thought of an uninstall and re-install?

 

Mailwasher forum

Have you tried the Mailwasher Forum it is a great place to look for answers ?
it can be found at the link below.

http://www.computercops.biz/forum-cat15.html

 

Hi all

Rockster - sorry to be slow replying, I missed the email notification

alboy - yes, indeed there are at least two threads there which mention D612, my original

the mailwasher forum was where Google took me - last time I looked there (~2 days ago) nobody had posted an answer

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indeed it is v4.1, I'd only downloaded it a day or so before my original post. As BB said, I'm "learning "...

...was thinking of trying an uninstall/reinstall anyway, & now I find my hand is forced - something's gone awry with my Java, ?Opera's JRE arguing with M$ VM - pranged the kite, then found many files dating somewhen in 1967! (according to Windows Explorer, scandisk says they're invalid)

gonna reinstall Windows and all, every time I've scandisked invalid dates out of the way all it's left me is grief after.

will post back with anything I find.

Rockster - (or any other friendly soul) - if you get a mo, could you sneak a peek at your spamlog.txt and see whether it's peppered with D612s? I'm really starting to think that it's just "par for the course "? - everywhere I've found which mentions it, makes no mention of the program misfiring. Just lots of puzzled people.

One possibility (OK, remote): does D612 diasappear after the program gets registered - is it only when the thing's on its trial period?

best wishes as ever, HJ

 

try Firetrust Support

Have you tried firetrust support they maybe be able to help try them at
http://www.firetrust.com/support/pro/

 

HJ:

Sorry for the slow response - been a busy one today. In answer to your D612 in any kind of spam log - notta thing. Maybe I'm dense but the only log I have which includes spam is my mail log under statistics and there aren't any in there. I'm using ORDB and Spam Cop Blacklist servers for auto delete from their data bases and am a subscriber to First Alert and have all of those auto deleting so there's a good possibility if I were to have a D612 error, I might not ever see it (or them) as the case might be.

 

Hi

Rockster

many thanks for the check - so log file without D612s do exist

alboy - thanks for the link

busy too here (family stuff) may be away for a while; will post back when things calm down with wherever it's got to

best wishes, HJ

 

Hi again

back for a few days and I've had another go, effectively reinstalling OS** and reinstalling Mailwasher, so far no D612's in sight.

**OS from a backup taken of fresh W98FE plus main apps - so Mailwasher "thinks" it's being installed for the first time again

I found something else, though - the "recommended" (and default) option to check (in my case 11) email accounts simultaneously is seriously bad news => every time I checked the accounts, got blue screens as described here (KB149083) about running out of spare stack pages, I got both the ones it mentions. I could have increased the number of spares - but a far better solution was just to opt for sequential checking.

[edited out: long spiel more about VXD overflowings rather than Mailwasher! Bottom line: I got a handle on how to get a computer into needing power off (ie more than reboot) to recover, and without even seeing a blue screen, just a minor flicker which you probably wouldn't even notice on a halfway reasonable PC... has made sense out of things which have baffled me for ages - will post somewhere more relevant if anyone's interested. Highlights include freeze on Windows is Shutting Down screen; modem hanging on to phone line through hardware reset (yikes!), HDD can't read correctly according to mfr's tools but W98 will boot (ish!) with it in that state - all sorts of weird]

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other thing I noted (looking at Kerio) - when raising Mailwasher's Help (from its Help Menu, not the Start Menu item "Help" in the Mailwasher group) Mailwasher promptly requested two accesses to the internet
1) activex.microsoft.com (207.46.196.108:80)
2) origin-codecs.microsoft.com (207.46.248.96:80)

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not a D612 in sight though - and they can't have been anything to do with the Stack Page thing which happened on a mail check; the D612's were happening regularly while the program was idling.

will keep a careful watch on the spamlog file... Mailwasher's running absolutely fine at the moment.

best wishes, HJ.

 

...have since discovered that the internet accesses to origin.codecs and activex are not down to mailwasher; other software has produced the same first time Help system invoked

best wishes, HJ