Hello Wilfred!

22 Apr 14 11:03, you wrote to me:

 WV>>> To start with, which version of FMail are you using?

 WV> You haven't answered this?

FMail-W32-1.67.1.47

 RC>> My jam message base was created and maintained by fastecho, when
 RC>> I plugged in fmail to access the same message base, it mucked it
 RC>> up, often tossing the messages into one echo like FIDONEWS. Not
 RC>> all areas showed up in golded using the areafile keyword.

 WV> I never heard of such a case, but I don't think many people use
 WV> fastecho concurrently with fmail on the same message base. ;)

Correct...

What attracted me to Fmail was it is win32.. after so many executions,
fastecho would stop scanning within the environment, I suspect because of
being 16 bit and calling command.com.... I would have to invoke fastecho
manually.

 WV> But to be able to do anything with this, I will have to reproduce it,
 WV> which means I need some message base files from before the switch to
 WV> fmail, your fmail config files, and an example pkt file to toss with
 WV> fmail, which causes the symptoms. Would that be possible at all? But
 WV> I'm wondering would it be worth the trouble, considering the rarity of
 WV> the use-case.


Situation rendered moot, when I created a fresh message base.


 RC>> It would be nice if the setup program was win32,

 WV> Indeed it would. ;)

 RC>> and had a more logical flow to it likefastechoes or even RA's..

 WV> You should be more specific on what you definition of logical is in
 WV> this case. ;) I don't know what fastechos or RA's config program looks
 WV> like. But I don't think I'm gonna do a complete make-over of how
 WV> fsetup works anyway, the current userbase is used to how things work.
 WV> But of course that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement on
 WV> some of the specifics...


Are you familiar with Frontdoors setup program and its layout?

==
Ross
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