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 <simon.davis@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>In <4i6c35$abb@cougar.vut.edu.au>, jallen@pobox.com (Jason Allen) writes:
>>dcm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Dennis Mills)13 Mar 1996 03:43:21 GMT writes:
>
>>> However, whenever I attempt to send outgoing mail (either replying to incoming
>>> or unsolicited) it appears that the sendmail program fails to see the tcp/ip
>>> stack and exits. Outgoing mail then ends up in the send queue.
>
>>Whilst this is not a direct solution to your problem, I believe that you would
>>be a lot better off changing to another email program.
>
>I'm afraid I have to agree with this advice. Ultimail just doesn't work.
>I'm a registered PMMAIL fan too.
>Simon

I agree also, up to a point.  I ditched Ultimail (Lite!) because it was
rubbish, and at several megabytes was far from "lite".  I also got
PMMAIL and agree it's much better.  However, before I register it, can
the registered users tell me if these problems in PMMAIL are fixed in
the registered version?

1. Sometimes, PMMAIL forgets to split mail messages and I end up with one
   message in PMMAIL that contains what should be many separate mail messages.
   (This happens especially when I have a few hundred mail messages waiting
   to be collected.)

2. Since getting the IAK updates, I can't send out long mail messages.
   I get a POP socket time error of some sort, and then message message
   doesn't get sent.

3. PMMAIL uses an incorrect algorithm to separate mail messages.  Rather
   than looking for a "From" line with a timestamp, it just splits at 
   any line beginning with the word "From".  This can (and does) appear
   in the text of messages, and it's quite irritating to have messages
   split in the middle because of this.  (Of course, Ultimail had the
   same problem, only worse - it just gobbled the rest of the message!)

Although the above might sound a bit negative, I am actually reasonably
impressed with PMMAIL.

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