>> and, are you sure it isn't Marena that has the deficiencies?

 MvdV> With compressed mail, Marena is called for each packet that the
 MvdV> archiver extracts from the bundle. If the mail comes in
 MvdV> uncompressed marena is never called.

 MvdV> How can a program that is never called be deficient?

I was more or less just wondering if its being called and then exiting
because its encoutering something it didn't expect... Why FMail wouldn't
call it I don't understand... I get *.PKT bundles here many times a day,
for a few years, and there is absolutely no problem with them... fmail does
exactly what it's supposed to do.

 MvdV> I wrote Marena during the CSO wars over ten years ago. At that time

 MvdV> The CSO wars are over, the broken echos have been relinked, but I
 MvdV> still use Marena. I find it useful for crosslinking echos with
 MvdV> different names and for getting the same echo with multiple links
 MvdV> without causing dupe loops.

Well... if the initial need for it is gone, question is can you find
something else that will do what you still find useful in it?  Despite the
claim that it can't be something with the software, some how, some way, it
has to be... the fact that FMail will work with *.PKT on everybody elses
system, and not yours, seems to support that.  I don't see where the
problem with it in FMail lays.

phil

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