[DM-MUG] Attachment help needed

[Bailey Ford]

Just catching up on reading this thread and had a few things to add.

First off, you are not alone. A quick google of "modus Webmail" 
resulted in a number of postings that cited this exact error (e.g. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/modus@vircom.com/msg01317.html) My best 
guess after reading this stuff is that the error is caused by incorrect 
permissions set on the server side. Basically, I think it's the ISP's 
fault.

I don't know anything about the mail program they are giving you, but I 
have become a fan of Apple's free Mail application (often called 
mail.app). Prarienet should be able to provide the settings you need to 
get it working. Basically all you need is the name of the mail server, 
a username and password, and the name of the outgoing mail server. 
Every mail application will have an area to fill in this account 
information (in mail.app, its in the preferences under the accounts 
tab).

It looks like this modus webmail thing is just a way to access your 
email via a web page, and not an email program that runs on your 
computer (like eudora, or mail.app, or Entourage). Because of this, you 
might also try using another web browser to see if you get the same 
error. What web browser are you using now? (likely to be Internet 
Explorer, Safari, OmniWeb, Netscape... something like that) Upgrading 
that program might also help.

If you are using Safari, there is a great bit of software called Safari 
Enhancer that will allow you to turn on an extra menu called the debug 
menu. This has all kinds of new features in it, but the main one for 
your situation is that it allows you to set your browser to report that 
it is a different browser. When you first go to a web page (say, the 
page where you go to get your mail), there is a way for the web server 
to ask what program you are using to view that page. Normally, Safari 
would just say "I'm Safari", but you can have it lie and say, "I'm 
Internet Explorer for Windows". Some naughty web pages only want to 
work for some browsers, so being able to pretend you are using another 
program sometimes gets things to work better. You can get Safari 
Enhancer at macupdate.com.

OK. I hope that helps some,

Bailey