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echo: fmail_help
to: PAUL QUINN
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2017-09-17 12:52:00
subject: Re: Trialing FMail/lnx -

Hi Paul,

On 2017-09-17 07:17:12, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> That's about creating a filerequest message, not about handling
 WvV>> it...

 PQ> Fascinating.  That's what they mean by the term conundrum, I guess.  Why
 PQ> create something that cannot be handled by itself at a later stage? 
Mmm...

That probably shows FMail's origin in a frontdoor mailer (or likewise)
environment...

 WvV>> Ok it could be done, maybe in the pack function, or maybe in a
 WvV>> seperate function. It doesn't seem all that hard... But it was never
 WvV>> implemented by the original author, and never came up before in the
 WvV>> 10 years I'm involved with the source code. I could put it on "the
 WvV>> list", but it wouldn't be a high priority item...

 PQ> Nice.  Even at priority #99 it is still on 'the list'.  :)  Thank you.

It's a coasy area of the list, with a lot of other wishes which have been there
a long time... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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