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There seems to be a bug involving the Email File Name. A little playing around makes me suspect that it can't contain a space character.

Try the following scenario:
- Start a new e-mail game.
- Use "Don Space Don" as the Email File Name.
- Play the first turn.
- Hit "exit and send"

Two incorrect things happen:
- the EmailSender does not fire up
- the file produced has a ".eml" extension

On the other hand:
- Use "DonDon" as the Email File Name
- the EmailSender works
- the file produced has the correct ".dkp" extension

Notes:
- if you leave the email game via "Return to Start", the file produced also has the ".eml" extension
- the ".eml" file is not a renamed ".dkp" file, i.e., renaming it gives you a file that KP views as garbage

Don, are you running XP or something else?

I tried to replicate your issue on my XP system by creating a Don Space Don PBEM file, and all worked fine.

Note that a raw PBEM file is .eml - when the email sender kicks in it converts it to a compressed .dkp file for email transmission and corruption detection. KP then deletes the .eml file upon successful .dkp file creation.

You can theoretically send the raw .eml files but it is not recommended.

Is any one else having email sender problems?

In terms of what you should expect to happen when you send and receive a KP email turn, I will outline below:

Finishing and sending a KP PBEM turn:

Hit the red button and select "Exit and send". Kp will now exit.
After a few seconds a new email message will be created in your default email client, with your opponent's email address filled in, the name of the turn in the Subject line, and the PBEM file attached to the message, with a nomenclature of <filename><axis or allied><turn number>.dkp.

Enter insults into the mail message as required and hit the send button when online and that's effectively it.

Receiving a KP PBEM turn:

when you receive an email turn from you opponent, you should be able to double click on the .dkp file attachment and this will automatically load KP and present you with your email turn ready to play.

It should be as simple as that.

I suspect it may take some tweaking on certain systems depending on whether certain .ocx files are registered correctly and .dkp files are associated with the korsun.exe executable.

Cheers Chris

Hmmm. Very odd.

Yes, I'm running XP. But I tried it at work today on my Win2000 machine and got the same behavior.

The fact that dkp is created by the email sender makes sense ... it seems clear that in the "Don Space Don" case, the invocation of the email sender failed (there was no indication the process ran since the email window didn't come up).

Interesting observation
- this is the 2nd bug I've reported where I think spaces are an issue
- you (Chris) couldn't duplicate either bug

What could be the difference in our machines? Most obvious things seem far-fetched ... e.g., language, culture, etc., settings. Hmm.

I tried to replicate here; no problem, running Win98SE.

Donstone, you must be playing it with music on from winamp or another program than KP. I just tested it and i've found out the hard way that that was the problem... I just wasted my near "perfect" 1st turn of the campaign against warspite...

DonStone,

Did you install the game to the default directory?

If you did not then that is the cause of your problem.

Don't listen to Joe, trust Me!

I tested it again and i think that the lenght of the filename must be the shortest possible in order to avoid losing your turn.

Originally posted by DonStone
There seems to be a bug involving the Email File Name. A little playing around makes me suspect that it can't contain a space character.

Two incorrect things happen:
- the EmailSender does not fire up
- the file produced has a ".eml" extension

Hey DonStone,

On either of your PC's. can you create a simple text file with the name "don space don", i.e. 'don space don.txt'?

If not then it could be a file naming convention problem.

If you can use your default file compression utility to compress this file using the same name and see if that runs OK.

BTW I don't see your problem on my PC either.

-g

OK.

Re-installing in the default directory, i.e., "C:\Matrix Games\Korsun Pocket, has solved this problem. E-mail is now behaving as expected.

I was previously installed in "C:\Program Files\Matrix Games\Korsun Pocket".

Joe 98, thanks for the tip ...

Chris, so this bug is probably "bug when installed to non-default directory".