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echo: spitfire
to: Michael Dillon
from: Larry Eggers
date: 2002-11-14 20:30:06
subject: Re: Minor addressing glitch

LE> I've been noticing something peculiar about AMail.  Whenever a 
LE> message area is shared with a *.msg base, AMail will always insist 
LE> that any message that originates from the *.msg area comes from zone 
LE> 1, when in reality it may have originated from zone 282 (or any other 

MD> Duely noted.  Sounds like just a minor parsing error that is fixable.

I thought it might be something smiple (yes, that was intentional),
which is why I gave it low priority.

MD> Main priority now is to handle excessively large messages.  I'm not 
MD> talkinga 40kb message.  But more rather a 250k+ message that is very 
MD> hard to handle
MD> on a normal basis.  Also this is more a restriction of DOS 16-bit.  

Yes, this is indeed top priority, especially for those of us who
still run 16-bit DOS.

MD> have to just figure
MD> a method for telling AMail that a message is large and needs to be 
MD> read morebefore being tossed or otherwise.  Excuse me if I'm being 
MD> redundant but I just
MD> like to clarify :)

Looks like we're on the same page.  This is good.

Just so everyone else here knows...
Once we get the DOS-16 version working smoothly, other flavors will
follow.  
Also the current temp. beta (v2.03a) appears to be at least reasonably
stable, so if you'd like a copy, please let me know via email...address
below.

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