In a message to All, Fred Springfield wrote re: PM Sessions
 
 FS> Perhaps this was covered a couple of years ago, but I have forgotten
 FS> the answer.
 FS> 
 FS> How can I start a PM type of program so that it is minimized?

There were many replies to this question, all good.

Thanks Will H., for reminding me of the filename change trick, and
John T., for suggesting I look at the very customized "start" command.

Unfortunately, Post Road Mailer did not honor the requests from either
of these methods, so nothing will work for PRM.  Also unfortunately,
PMMail is not a candidate for this project, because there is no way to
get it to do anything automatically upon opening, such as send, or
fetch, the mail. I guess that leaves just MR/2 ICE, which I have tried
yet

As a brief explanation of this project, it started with trying tcpip
v4.1, which I d/l'd from IBM while the gate was "temporarily open". 
Very early on, after installing it, I noticed that UML would not send
out messages which had been composed "offline", because for some reason
they would not get sent to the outgoing queue.  Instead, they all ended
up in the deadlet.ter file.  After about 2 months of installing and
re-installing all of the "32 bit" stacks, including wr08600 (comes with
tcpip v4.1), wr0861, and the recent upgrade, wr08620, and trying to find
a workable configuration, without any success, I gave up, and went back
to the best of the "16 bit stacks", ver "w".

However, I still have this yen to use the "32 bit" stacks for my
internet work, and so I have been exploring alternate mailers.  I have
UML running here under a couple of rexx control programs so that I do
all my letter writing  "off-line", and click on the control program
icons for automatic dial-up, send, and fetch of all incoming and
outgoing mail, and automatic disconnect.  This makes finding a
sustitute mail program rather difficult.

I am running Warp 4 + FP10, here, and run all my rexx programs under
Object Rexx.  BTW, Object Rexx only works for me under Warp 4.  The
add-on version which IBM released for Warp 3, was never fixed to process
dynamic data with the charin and linein commands, so I can not use it
for communications input to my stock market data reteival programs.

Thanks for all the replies.

Fred Springfield
Plymouth, MN


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