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echo: fmail_help
to: Mark Lewis
from: Richard Menedetter
date: 2016-11-23 09:50:02
subject: Netmail and Jam

Hi Mark!

22 Nov 2016 20:12, from mark lewis -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> Especially if there is a text config and a more intuitive rescan.
 RM>> (telling me that I am already subscribed instead of doing a
 RM>> rescan on that area)
 ml> but that's not what rescans are for...
 ml> rescans are for rescanning, subscribed or not...

That is also my working assumption.
It seems it was not the one of the original FMail author.

 ml> the rescan will subscribe you if you are not
 ml> already subscribed, though... generally speaking, of course...

I agree, and this is exactly as HPT handles this usecase.

CU, Ricsi

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