I have some really odd things happening with Poco 4.8.0.4400 under Win 7 x64, Home Premium.
When I installed Poco I had the User Account Control settings at minimum, but not off completely. When starting Poco, no UAC pop-up was displayed. I made all my theme and file location customizations and that worked fine, although I could not display an e-mail in a browser. That would fail with a "file not found" error. Also, Poco will not operate as the default mail client for website "mailto:" links. If I click the link on a page what I get is a blank e-mail with a string similar to "mailto:theaddress@wherever.com" as an attachment. No address occurs in the TO field. I have not found a solution for this.
The other day I decided to turn off the UAC completely since I have a really good virus and execution control program. As soon as I did that, Poco lost all its custom settings and all my mail disappeared. I was able to reset file locations and get my mail back, but theme customizations had to be done all over again. Instead, I turned the UAC back on.
Today, I enabled "Run as administrator" on the Poco Icon. Now when I try to start Poco I get a UAC warning. And again ... as soon as I did that, Poco lost all its custom settings. Viewing an e-mail in a browser now works, though.
I find all this weird behavior rather disconcerting. It tells me that Poco is using different file and settings locations depending on privilege and UAC level. The reaction to the admin privilege seems backwards. It should trigger the UAC on low privilege and shut the heck up on high privilege, and it should use the same settings locations no matter what.
Another related concern is that Poco has not been updated in over two years, so this may mean that the code is "ignorant" of Win 7 requirements. I rely on Poco for my business e-mail and I archive all e-mail for record keeping. I need Poco to be viable on Win 7 and future OS's.
Has anyone found any solutions to any of the above?