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echo: spitfire
to: Larry Eggers
from: Michael Dillon
date: 2002-11-13 13:50:44
subject: Re: Minor addressing glitch

*** Quoting Larry Eggers from a message to Michael Dillon ***

LE> Hi Mike, the following is a low priority item.  No need to rush into 
LE> it...unless you want to.

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 
LE> zone).  For me, it's just a minor annoyance at best, but when you 
LE> have a chance, could you look into that??

Duely noted.  Sounds like just a minor parsing error that is fixable.
Main priority now is to handle excessively large messages.  I'm not talking
a 40kb message.  But more rather a 250k+ message that is very hard to handle
on a normal basis.  Also this is more a restriction of DOS 16-bit.  OS/2,
DOS 32-bit, Windows, and the like can allocate enough memory to process the
entire packet as a whole instead of reading parts.  This isn't always a
desired method because you could end up allocating large sums of memory
for a single file.  So I'm going to continue the process of reading it
piece by piece (since this is the most "portable" way).  I have
to just figure
a method for telling AMail that a message is large and needs to be read more
before being tossed or otherwise.  Excuse me if I'm being redundant but I just
like to clarify :)

Mike

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