>>  MvdV> Not at all. Not even with a complete massage base scan.

 >> ewww... what version of FMail?

 MvdV> 1.60

i don't recall why i'm (still) at 1.48... maybe it is/was the last freeware
version or something?

 >>>>  MvdV> The fmail doc mentiones a file ECHOMAIL.JAM but I
 >>>>  MvdV> can't locate that anywhere.

 >>>> it should be located in the same place as the possibly
 >>>> empty HMB files...

 >>  MvdV> Nope. Nowhere to be found.

it is up to the editor to create it when an echomail message has been entered...

 >> hummm... it should contain the base name and the message
 >> number needing exporting...

 MvdV> As I said, nowhere to be found...

understand... that puts that part of the problem on the editor...

 >>  MvdV> No, I wanted to eliminate Fmail as the source of the problems
 >>  MvdV> first. That is why I asked here if anyone had similar problems
 >>  MvdV> with Fmail and Jam.

 >> ahhh... well, from what i see over here, fmail shouldn't be
 >> part of the problems...

 MvdV> It looks like it. Although  it worries me a bit that I can't
 MvdV> find the seen by and path information anywhere.

yeah, i'm not sure, either... maybe a problem in 1.60? my 1.48 seems to
handle them ok...

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 >>  MvdV> Maybe it is time to dump InterMail alltogether...

 >> possibly...

 MvdV> Well, I have no problem with the mailer, but the editor is
 MvdV> less than satisfactory. For one it does not support initials
 MvdV> in quoting. Something that I get harped over from time to
 MvdV> time. I sort of expected this to be taken care of in 2.50. But
 MvdV> no..

;( again...

 >>  MvdV> Problem is that I don't want pay again for a mailer that I am
 >>  MvdV> not really using anyway. The POTS mailer just sits there
 >>  MvdV> watching the semaphore flags and exits on mail received. Once
 >>  MvdV> every three month there is this oddball sysop who crashes me a
 >>  MvdV> pointlist segment. That is all it is doing these days. I
 >>  MvdV> upgraded so that I had a version that I could train NOT to
 >>  MvdV> call nodes flagged as IBN.

 >> i hear that... there are some free mailers out there...
 >> what OS are you running?

 MvdV> Win98SE.

 >> radius does a nice job and is what i use on the point system
 >> with fmail and timed... the main bbs is all FD, RA and FE with
 >> TimED on the side and all are beta products except TimED...

you may want to look at radius and such, in that case... i've not played
with it in its (new) FAttach mode but have been "limping" along
in binkley mode ;)

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