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[subject: my winpmail 3.01b woes! Help!]

Hello, helpers out there,

I have been using pmail for 4 years, started in the DOS version now in
win95. I used every upgrade version, never had any headaches with it until
switching from winpmail 2.56 (16bit) to the latest -- 3.01b(16bit) in July.
And ever since then I've had a heck of bad times! Please take mercy on me
and help me out if you could in anyway.

system/network config:  I am runing a local copy of winpmail on a highend
win95 (OSR2) machine with MS netware client, in a netware 3.12 enviroment.
The Mercury server is on Netware (over which I have no control). My mail
directory always resides on sys:mail/mysuserid/, where all of my mail files,
folders, pmail.ini file are. Since our campus standard Pmail client is
running off netware servers and is always a few versions older, I just
installed the latest version of pmail on my local PC. And I  enjoyed it very
much.

When I got v 3.01b, I installed it over my v 2.56 as usual and started
enjoyed the new features. Then the problems came. At first, it was just 2 or
3 win95 crashes a week. Since I run a lot of programs all the time, I wasn't
it was Pmail. Pmail would suddenly crash, when I restarted it, It would
display an error like "cannot find a device" or something, then eventually
windows explorer would crash, and then the desktop. I have to reboot the PC
to enter Winpmail again. One of the error is like this: " a fatal exception
0E has occurred at 0137:BFF9A3C0." Another, "
MSGSRV32 caused a GPF in KRNL386.EXE at 0001:00001C0E."

The crashes happened more frequently and error messages got more obscure
until there was no more error message sometimes, and the whole machine just
hung up. I uninstalled it (couldn't go through all the way using win95's
add/remove feature, so I manually cleaned the registry), reinstalled fresh
downloads, even reverted back to the older version on the network. None
worked. In fact, while I can still run v 3.01b for a little while each time,
I have no luck running v 2.5 from the network -- it just displays a
winpmail.exe GPF and never let me in.

I've read all the support docs and faqs, tried to tweak my pmail.ini,
checked my trustee rights on the mail directory.

What make it so hard to troubleshoot is,
1) nothing else (at least I can't recall anything) was changed on my PC or
network mail directory immediately prior to or after the v 3.01b upgrade.

2) I tried to use other Win95 workstations, exactly the same frustration. So
this problem is not machine-specific.

I have absulotely no clue whatsoever caused the upgrade and downgrade woes.
Now the only usable is the good old DOS version which I have been using to
read/write mail since the problems. But it can't apply my complex mail
filtering rules and lacks some other nice features.
So I have to run the broken v 3.01b (don't remember if it's the 4th or 5th
installation)
from time to time.

This morning when I ran the latest winpmail from my local pc, I found it
woudn't display my folders, not even the Main Folder. But I can access all
my personal address books and mailing lists. I checked the network mail
directory, everything is there, including MAIN.PMT. I then ran DOS Pmail to
make sure, and it saw everything. But back in winpmail no folder can be
displayed.
I re-created MAIN.PMT, Winpmail still can't see it.

I am stuck with DOS Pmail now :((

Sorry for such a lengthy message. Please, Please help!

daniel