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mbox mail doesn't work in Lion

brandscill said:
Finally heard back from fluent factory, they're looking into it..... bugger
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Yes, they will look into it. They emailed me today. It might take few days or weeks.
Anyway, I will just wait. This Hex editor thing is just too complicate for me.
 
When I execute "Replace All" nothing seems to happen. I just kept going and when I used "Save" I did not get any error message. So I just kept going......finally my mbox does not work. Does anybody know what I did wrong? Any suggestions? Thank you
 
Anybody having the Trial Expired problem? I purchased the app and it registers ok but then looses it when I close the preferences pane.
 
For those who got it to work: did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

I'm still getting a trial expired although I registered twice :(
 
pjdamen said:
For those who got it to work: did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

I'm still getting a trial expired although I registered twice :(
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It worked for me... my Lion install was an upgrade... wasn't everyones? There was no option to do a 'Clean Install' when I installed!
 
No joy here

I've followed the procedure but it doesn't seemingly pull the emails from the hotmail server.

It doesn't prompt for the password as before the procedure but nothing gets downloaded.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to what else I could try?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers

P.S. My install was an upgrade so the problem would seem to be intermitent
 
Update:

It seems to be working now. Just did the above plus stopped and started the server and it worked. The performance can seem slow with mbox for me. Sometimes opening and cloying mail can kick it in to action.

Hope this helps others.
 
It works!

Followed the HexFiend instructions from page 1 and it worked. Was a bit sticky at first - was getting errors about connection timeout but I did change some settings earlier trying to get this working but once I restored the original settings, restarted Mail & mBox server again, everything came back! Can send emails no problem, too.

Thanks!!!
 
whoisandy said:
Followed the HexFiend instructions from page 1 and it worked. Was a bit sticky at first - was getting errors about connection timeout but I did change some settings earlier trying to get this working but once I restored the original settings, restarted Mail & mBox server again, everything came back! Can send emails no problem, too.

Thanks!!!
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My question.... can you see your hotmail FOLDERS?
I'm able to send and receive, but thats all.
 
funlad said:
It worked for me... my Lion install was an upgrade... wasn't everyones? There was no option to do a 'Clean Install' when I installed!
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You can acytually burn the DMG inside of the installer and burn it to disc or stick. You are then able to clean install.
 
I accidentally removed my mBox program. It had been purchased, so I have the registration number. Any thoughts on how to download it, without having to purchase again?
 
pjdamen said:
For those who got it to work: did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

I'm still getting a trial expired although I registered twice :(
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Did an upgrade from leopard. Now everything finally works. So it seems a clean Lion misses some needed parts.
 
Just an update - this works great to RECEIVE mail but I've found it is NOT allowing me to SEND mail. Any advice/updates would be most appreciated. I did open a support ticket with FluentFactory that mBox was not compatible with Lion and received a reply email that they are "looking into it."

reseul said:
1. Ok, so download Hex Fiend from the link shown by other users.
Also stop mBox server, your email client, etc.
2. Go to the /usr/local/FluentFactory/mBoxMail folder with Finder (use Go/Go To Folder menu to get into the hidden /usr folder)
3. Make a copy of the mBoxMail file
4. Open file mBoxMail with Hex Fiend using Open With...
5. In Hex Fiend, choose Edit/Find/Find...
6. In the panel that showed up on top, choose the ASCII radio button
7. Enter AUTH=PLAIN in the Find field
8. Enter 10 spaces in the Replace field
9. Execute "Replace All"
10 Try File/Save
11. It may not work because of rights issues. Dismiss the error message and leave the Hex Fiend running.
12. Separately open a Terminal window
13. Execute "cd /usr/local/FluentFactory/mBoxMail"
14. Execute "whoami". The name that shows up is your account alias. Mine is resell, yours is different. Use yours in the next command
15. Execute "sudo chown reseul mBoxMail". You may get prompted for password. Enter it.
16 Back to Hex Fiend, try File Save again. It should work now.
17 Back to terminal, execute "sudo chown root mBoxMail" to restore the right owner (root).

You're done. Close the hex editor, terminal, restart the mbox server..

Now, this may not be the most optimal path. I tried my best.
I hope it helps.
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About sending...

DLuther, sending email shouldn't involve mboxmail at all.
Check the mail config settings, the outgoing smtp address or similar.

MBoxMail is just for tyne incoming path.
 
I emailed them a link to the fix like a come on guys, someone else has done this in a matter of days and you've had months to test this.
 
pjdamen said:
For those who got it to work: did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

I'm still getting a trial expired although I registered twice :(
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The preference pane does not seem to be able to write to the appropriate file. try the following:

1. Stop and quit mBox
2. Open Terminal
3. cd /Library/Preferences
4. sudo chmod 777 .
5. sudo chmod 777 com.fluentfactory.MboxMail.plist
6. Go to System Preferences and reregister. Quit and reenter to verify registration is persisted *
7. Return to Terminal and make sure you;re in /Library/Preferences
8. sudo chmod 755 .
9. sudo chmod 644 com.fluentfactory.MboxMail.plist


* If this fails, you may need to open the plist file in Xcode, remove the days remaining key, and then register.
 
mBox Mail Updated

Looks like mBox Mail's been updated to version 1.0.3. I've not tried this latest update, but assume it's now Lion compatible.
 
nuxx said:
Looks like mBox Mail's been updated to version 1.0.3. I've not tried this latest update, but assume it's now Lion compatible.
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Has anyone downloaded and tried the updated version? I'm a bit reluctant to, as after editing the hex file as described above it is working fine for me, so I don't want to rock the boat....
 
Can confirm the update works.

After the instal it will ask you to upgrade to version 1.02 obviously don't it must be a bug.

A downside is it's still 32bit only :(

I also am a little disappointed they didn't post this on their blog where I've been checking daily, or respond to my original support email informing me of an update. I simply only found out thanks to a poster on here and an email from my subscription to this thread.
 
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