*** Quoting Frank Vest from a message to Michael Dillon ***


FV> Larry should be sending you a "lock-up.zip" file that contains a 
FV> packet that locks Amail. 

FV> I'm not a programmer of any sort but I will offer this.... I used to 
FV> run a program to split long messages in packets and fix some grunged 
FV> messages before running Amail. This helped a lot with the tossing. 
FV> Maybe some sort of routine in Amail could be made to do the same 
FV> thing.

FV> The "packet sort" program that I used also reorganized the
packets in 
FV> a bundle into one big packet that had the echos in order by subject. 
FV> This increased the speed of tossing and took little time to do 
FV> compared to the speed increase. Of course, that was in the days of 
FV> 386 and lower CPUs with large Fidonet packets where we needed all the 
FV> speed help we could get. :-))


FV> Regards,

FV> Frank

I received that zipfile, I will use it in further tests.  Right now I am
hoping to fix AMail so that it can read long messages without a problem. 
It will basically read a part of the message, process it, and then read
the rest as it goes along.  I will just have to make sure Spitfire can
handle long messages, as I hope it can and it probably does.  If it
can't.. Then I might implement some code to split a message into parts
so that they are put onto the system in a readable manner without being
truncated.  

Sincerely,
Mike

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