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In <4ii6vd$dta@hamlet.ot.com.au>, blurk@ (Bernie Maier) writes:
> <simon.davis@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>>In <4i6c35$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:
[snip]
>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.

I haven't come across any of these bugs, but on the other hand I'm not reading the quantities you are.
The version of PMMAIL that is available (eg from BMT Micro) is the same
whether you register it or not.
We can hope, however, that the rumoured new (improved) version will appear soon.

Simon

PS The only problem I had with PMMAIL I fixed by using a different SMTP host - it had 
a minor problem talking to a VAX.