Erw Wen Software

This has been such a non-issue that we've never had an item on this forum until now.
The Holiday Letting System runs absolutely fine on Windows 11, with no conversion or modifications needed.

Now end of life is approaching for Windows 10, however, I have had a couple of queries. Yes - you can just ...

More: We continued to get numerous SPAM attempts to create an account, so I have now removed the ability to try to sign up.
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FIXED!

There's an updated beta version of LetSys available (V4.3.0.5) from the beta page: https://holletsys.co.uk/beta.htm

This latest version replaces the standard email interface with one that should work in most situations. We have tested this reasonably extensively and the tests show that ...

Please also be aware that the Windows 10 Mail App also does not support the necessary interface (MAPI). So this is not an alternative to either using Outlook or the built-in email client.

For example, this reference makes it clear that Windows MAIL is a basic Mail client, with no MAPI support ...

Thunderbird does not support the Microsoft "Messaging Application Programming Interface" (MAPI). So you can't send the booking confirmation emails that you are used to.

The two alternatives are switch your email client, or there is now an email client built into LetSys. This can send HTML ...

These are some thoughts about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how they might affect property owners who use the Holiday Letting System to manage their properties. While I've done much reading and even attended a short course, I am not an expert so this interpretation is my own ...

A new release of the Holiday Letting System is now available for download from our website, at https://erwwen.com/holletsys/download.htm

This release offers a number of enhancements especially ones aimed at improving the ease of configuring and using the web site integration features. There is ...

We continue to hear of email problems on Windows 10 which occur after applying fixes, or going through the twice a year upgrade which is forced upon home users. These problems are not caused by LetSys but by Microsoft's failure to adequately test their new releases.

There is long discussion of ...

Another user has reported an email problem with LetSys 4.1 on Windows 10 after applying upgrades or fixes.
The message seen was "Error Code=26 unable to send emails". He had tried running the fix referred to above, namely executing the script CheckMAPI.vbs but this did not work.

He subsequently ...

One of our users has reported that the problem was resolved by a fix installed by Microsoft on 15th June.

I haven't verified this myself yet, but it would now seem that you can go ahead and install this new release of Windows 10.

Brendan Blake.