Hello Phil,

 >>> But your problem is another, it seems your mail editor
 >>> don't set the right flags to the mail.

 >  MvdV> Indeed. The InterMail 2.50 editor is buggy.

 > Ya know... my understanding is that the author of IM and FD
 > used to work together, had differences, then split.

That's right. Peter Stewart and Joho had a falling out and they split up
somewhere in 1990 or so. They both got the source, Joho kept the name and
Peter continued under the name of InterMail.

I don't know the exact date, as it happened before I entered the scene as a
point in 1992. My boss node (Evert Bruinsma) was the Dutch agent for
InterMail, so I got a nice "cosysop" deal for InterMail.

 > While IM's message editor may be buggy,

I had no little or no complaints until I did a late ugrade to 2.50. The
mailer is fine, but the editor is a bummer. peter really butched it up. I
am very glad I didn't upgrade five years ago when I would have had to pay
for it.

 > both Marc and I could verfify the fact that the FD editor (FM) is
 > one of the best out there.  If you like the IM editor, you would
 > likely like the FD editor more.

If it has the features but not the bugs, I think I will.

Actually I have been using FM for a while on my second system. (OS/2). But
that has been scrapped and I lost it.

So I have to get a new copy somewhere.

 > It's not as obsolete and outdated as some would say just
 > because it runs in text (DOS) mode... It is actually quite
 > an advanced piece of work that I have yet top see matched
 > by some of the newer junk.

DOS mode is not a probblem. On the contrary perhaps. I am lost without my
resident spell checker and that only works under DOS...

 > Only problem I would think you might have reviewing it
 > however is that I believe there is a problem with the
 > shareware version on faster machines that cannot be patched
 > at present,

Oops. The infamous run time error 200. :-(

That's a problem. My main machine is 500 MHz. Then again I
managed to patch programs that others said couln't be patched...


So I should give it a try.

Got a url where I can download the freeware cersion?

 > and only the commercial version flies like the wind.

Well, I am not going to pay for a POTS mailer that I am not going to use
anyway. It is just sitting there these days. I let it run as long as it
does not cost me anything, but that's it. IP is the future...

Cheers, Michiel

--- InterMail 2.50