Hello joaquim!

You wrote to me:

 >> another.  Portal of Power, for example, breaks a few of the
 >> EMSI rules, and gives a 100% compliant mailer a real
 >> headache.

 jh>   Aye.. what you say is true, but not the fault of EMSI. There are far
 jh> bigger problems between "100% FTS-1 compliant" mailers than those
 jh> between EMSI-capable mailers. I'm not telling you anything new, I'm
 jh> sure :-)

Aint that the truth!  :-)

The author of my mailer (MelMail) had a hell of a time adding EMSI, simply
because a number of his downlinks used PoP, amongst other things.  While
EMSI would work fine between two MM sites, and fine with FD/IM sites,
things more or less exploded with FTS-6-only & PoP sites.  (Portal
sends something like 20 INQ packets per second sometimes...)

FTS-1 is another thing altogether.  We're so far from the FTS-1 state
tables that it would be impossible to even tell you used that
documentation.  (This allows switching to a different session immediately,
depending on what the other end seems to want..  Makes for very fast
connections, but it's a real PITA to work on I guess.)

Take care,
Anthony
tibbsa{at}softhome.net


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