Hi Andrew,

Andrew Leary wrote to Michiel Broek:
AL> Michiel Broek wrote in a message to Alan Ianson:
AL> 
AL> AI> Is the next stable immenent? The reason I ask is that I heard that
AL> AI> Internet Rex was in beta. I was thinking it would be nice if MBSE
AL> AI> & Internet Rex were working well together it could stop going into
AL> AI> binkp/1.0 mode. Once in a while I get hung sessions with Irex and
AL> AI> I bet those could be cleared up without too much difficulty.
AL> 
AL>  MB> This is a problem in Irex, which Irex has with all other binkp
AL>  MB> mailers. I hope this is solved.
AL> 
AL> It would be nice if Charles would fix it.  I've had to stop using IRex for 

AL> BinkP because if would lock up at least every 2-3 days while downloading 
AL> files from my uplink.  After the IRex failure, I would just fire up BinkD 
AL> and it would transfer the same file with no problems whatsoever.  About 
AL> the only thing I use IRex for now is to send and receive TransX mail, 
AL> since my ISP's mail server requires authentication, which TransX's 
AL> send/receive module can't do.  AFAIK, BinkD works fine with every other 
AL> BinkP mailer, including MBSE.

You can run Irex for email transfers together with mbse. Some others do that
too and let mbse handle every other protocol.

I think we know soon enough if the new Irex will do better.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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