From: "Paul Ranson" 

This error should be way earlier than that, at the latest at the 'MAIL'
command. AOL isn't going to accept the mail, so it shouldn't let you get
started.

But I agree the error message should be displayed to the user. Useless otherwise.

Paul

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3f986084{at}w3.nls.net...
> When the server issues OK to the DATA statement the email program starts
> sending data, if that data completes and the email program issues the . on
a
> line by itself and then receives an error message instead of OK it should
> show that message to the user.
>
> Geo.

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