MvdV> Well I have set it aside for the moment as I ran into another
 MvdV> problem. Fmail erratically refused to update the message base
 MvdV> when tossing mail. Mail to the downlinks was passed on
 MvdV> allrght, but it didn''t always appear in my message base.

 MvdV> I found a zero lenght file MBUNLOCK.NOW in the Hudson
 MvdV> directory, never seen that before. Agfter deleting it and
 MvdV> packing with Ftools, Fmail would properly run again. But then
 MvdV> the next run the semaphore was there again.

right... MBUNLOCK.NOW is a semaphore used to signal that another task wants
the _hudson_ message base for a moment... the task locking the base should
pause its operations and release the base to allow the requesting task
access... it is a(nother) contribution from gerard van der land, the gecho
author, and is designed to allow the HMB to be easier used in a
multitasking/multinode setup... previously, there wasn't any sort of
locking capability built with the HMB... any that existed were created and
maintained by the author of the util performing such (ie: a bbs might put a
byte lock on one of its files signaling that it had the HMB locked)... more
information is available in the RALCK003 (an ASCII text file on my site
with a .DOC extension, located in area 10, "LOCAL: RemoteAccess
Related")...

 MvdV> So I stopped using FM for a while and went back to the old
 MvdV> editor. I had also changed Fmail and Ftools from the DOS
 MvdV> versions to the Windows versions not long ago and I needed to
 MvdV> eliminate that too as source of the problem.

i understand that...

 MvdV> Everything seesm to be back to normal now.

 >>  MvdV> Except hat I can't make it do quoting of initials. I found the
 >>  MvdV> option te choose between "As is"
"UPPERCASE" and "lower case",
 >>  MvdV> but is just doesn't quote initials...

 >>  MvdV> Could it be that this version doesn' support that?

 >> to be honest, i don't remember what features are disabled
 >> in the shareware version... i'm not even sure if i have a
 >> list around here... it is possible that someone in FDECHO
 >> may know...

 MvdV> Or perhaps I could RTFM. ;-)

it may be in there! O:)  i know that a lot of work was done on those docs
and there is even a FAQ file available... i'm confident that you saw that
stuff on your visit to my system... i have two or three frontdoor related
areas... same for fastecho and remoteaccess ;)  some are personally
maintained and others are fed by the file distribution systems... some
years back, i even went around and turned off the filebase maint for areas
like those in order to retain files and not purge them simply due to their
age...

)\/(ark