A B C D H I M P R T W Y

• Why does the "Colored text" gadget in the Read configuration looks wrong the first time I open this sheet?
  This is a bug in MUI 3.8 and can't unfortunately be worked around in any form. However, it is already fixed in MUI versions >= ...
• Why there are Enforcer hits when flushing memory after uniconifying YAM and its MUI prefs?
  If you iconify YAM while its MUI prefs window is opened, then you do an AVAIL FLUSH and then uniconify YAM, you get Enforcer hits. Unfortunately, this ...
• Why is YAM taking braces as in "[http://www.example.com]" as part of URLs?
  Despite the recommendation in RFC #1738 to encode such characters when they are supposed to be part of URLs, a number of Internet resources, entities and users ...
• Why does YAM crash or hang when I enter the 'Mixed/Misc' section in the configuration window or while starting up?
  This may be because of bugs in the XPK system (a collection of libraries used to compress and encrypt files) itself. It is known that XPK ...
• Why does YAM complain about a wrong version of a MUI custom class (e.g. NList.mcc)?
  Either the installer script didn't update the MUI libraries properly, or there is still an old version loaded in the memory or somewhere on your hard ...
• Why can't I send newline characters (0x0a) via the WRITEEDITOR Arexx command to YAM?
  You can. But you have to escape such special characters like a newline or an escape (0x1b) character with some special char sequences like:*N subsitutes to ...
• Why do certain mails I receive show up with lines quoted like ">From " even if the author of that mail hasn't written that From line quoted?
  Well, the answer is, the badly defined MBOX format is the reason. Certain mail delivery agents (MDA) and POP3 server implementations do have different interpretations of the ...
• Why are some columns of the mail listview always resizing automatically?
  In fact, this behaviour is very common for NList-based listviews. The 'problem' is, that NList is per default automatically adjusting the size of each column ...
• When I use the up/down arrows keys, the scrollbar of the main mail list moves instead of the highlighted mail to be changed. Why?
  The cause for this behaviour might be, that you have selected the main mail list via the "Tab" key gadget activation feature of MUI. MUI ...
• Why doesn't let YAM me choose an address from the popup list when writing a mail?
  When completing a yet known address YAM needs to be able to distinguish one address from another. That means that both, alias and realname, should be "relatively" ...
• When I use Genesis, Yam always uses the Genesis user to choose the account. How can I change that?
  YAM has special built in support for the Genesis TCP/IP stack by being able to query the currently active username. So it supports to automatically ...
• Why is the TAB key not advancing to the internal text editor gadget when I finished writing the subject line of a mail?
  This "problem" should only be visible with YAM versions equal or higher than 2.5+ In fact, it isn't really a problem, but a changed behaviour. ...
• When sending mail via smtp.gmail.com, YAM returns an error upon terminating the connection. However, the mail will be correctly send to its recipient.
  It seems that this is a problem/bug in the SMTP server implementation of the googlemail mail servers (smtp.gmail.com, smtp.googlemail.com, ...). When sending an email over ...
• When replying to a mail, a wrong To: address is put in the write window, why?
  Well, there seems to be a common misunderstanding of the folder based "mailing list" feature in YAM. Normally YAM allows to configure a folder as ...
• Why isn't YAM able to mark whole sentences as bold/italic/underline and just highlights single words? Wasn't that possible already?
  Since YAM 2.5 the text highlighting functionality in YAM was changed according to more or less established standard when writing/displaying email on different email programs. Previously, the internal ...
• When displaying an email with embedded soft-styles such as bold/italic, etc. the mail will be displayed with the style markers '*' as well, why?
  In versions previous to YAM 2.5+, email messages were displayed with the soft style markers in a mail. However, this cause severe trouble in case a style ...
• Will YAM ever be ported to other non-Amiga platforms like MacOSX, Linux or Windows?
  The only sensible answer to that question can unfortunately be: No.There are several reasons that prevent YAM from being easily ported to any non-Amiga like ...
• What's the purpose of the 'Bounce' option in YAM and can I use it to e.g. bounce SPAM mail back?
  Since early versions (2.3), YAM has a 'bounce' (remail) option which allows to send a mail to an alternative recipient as it would have been ...
• Why is the mail preselection/transfer window sometimes active by default and sometimes not?
  YAM can be configured to show the preselection/transfer window for downloading new mails only if certain conditions are met, for example always, never or only ...
• When writing an email I get an error message like "+++ Host environment not found"?
  If you are about to write an email in the internal texteditor of YAM and you automatically get an error message similar to this one: +++ ...
• Why is keyboard selection of multiple mails not working?
  According to the documentation and the configuration GUI of the NList.mcc class (which is used in YAM for displaying the mail list) one should be ...
• Why are some mails displayed without any text content which got displayed properly some weeks ago?
  Mails may contain several "streams", like the normal text and attachments. The text however may also exist in more than just one variant. The standard ...