Hi,

On 2014-07-12 21:24:55, Oleg Pevzner wrote to All:
  about: "The questions and notices on FMail":

 OP> 1. Is there any possibility to specify the maximum size of echo
 OP> bundles which are being packed for the particular links? If yes, how
 OP> can one get access to it?

No, there are no hidden options that can be configured outside of fsetup.

 OP> 2. It's very convenient that FMail's configurator has the Browser
 OP> function implemented for the specified links and echoes. Nevertheless,
 OP> the quick search function is extremely lacking here. Imaging there are
 OP> very large amount of links (nodes and points) and echoes (about 100
 OP> nodes and about several thousand echoes); I'd like to have a
 OP> possibility to search the required information quickly.

You will have to wait for fsetup "2.0". My first priority is make
a Win32 compatible FSetup, before making new functionality.

 OP> 3. I feel really upset about the menu "Miscelanneous -> Personal
 OP> Mail". Firstly, I totally misunderstand why the directory with the
 OP> Personal Mail has a restriction on storing the mail only in .MSG
 OP> format? As well as I understand, it's much more convenient to allow
 OP> processing of this mail in the format of the main database - e.g.,
 OP> JAM. In this case, it's much more convenient also to store rather
 OP> large database of a personal echomail; also, any search can be
 OP> performed more effectively on this database when required.

Idem.

 OP> Another problem of this menu is related to completely unclear
 OP> restriction on the Personal Mail folder name. E.g., I'm trying to
 OP> assign a name "MY_ARCMAIL" to this folder in FMail's
setup; it yields
 OP> to creation of a folder with a name "MY_ARCMA" on a hard
disk. If I'm
 OP> trying to give a name "PVT.OLEG.ARCMAIL" to this
directory, the system
 OP> warns me that it's impossible to create a directory with such names
 OP> and suggests me to change it, like I used some illegal characters or
 OP> made another rough mistake in this name. The system only accepts and
 OP> processes in a right way the name of this directory if it's formed in
 OP> an old DOS format 8.3. Is it really so important to use just an old
 OP> 8.3 format? It would be a good idea to have an ability to process all
 OP> possible files and directories names which can exist in the modern OS
 OP> Windows. The more, FMail doesn't position itself as a cross-platform
 OP> tosser, it's intended just for use in Windows.

As said before fmail has it origins in the DOS era. So in places it shows
it's age. I'll have a look at it though, because this is a limitation we
can do without.

 OP> 5. Do any tools exist for announcing of appearance of a new echo in
 OP> the configurator? It's especially important for the echoes which are
 OP> created automatically due to auto-creation function described above. I
 OP> haven't found yet how to do it. In some other tossers (e.g., FastEcho)
 OP> this function is implemented by means of automatic creation of a
 OP> message which may be posted in appropriated announces echo.

I don't know...

 OP> 7. The configuration import from others tossers works not correctly
 OP> enough yet. In particular, rather a complicated configuration of nodes
 OP> and echoes from FastEcho can be imported more or less successfully
 OP> (for which I'm grateful to you) but many parameters have to be
 OP> corrected manually after it. For example, what prevents the Origins or
 OP> echobase files names and paths from being imported automatically? At
 OP> the sime time, the subscribers list for this echo is being imported
 OP> correctly, as well as some other important parameters. Is it possible
 OP> to improve the configuration import operation and to minimize the
 OP> necessity of manual corrections?

FMail is opensource, so you're welcome to try and improve this. ;)


Bye, Wilfred.


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