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In Article <379272240wnr@browns.co.uk> Alistair Bell  writes:
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>Seconded. At home I use WinDIS as an SMTP/POP server and use Microsoft Exchange 
>for mail. Hence it would be very helpful to do this. 

I'm afraid I couldn't get this done in time for the 3.1 release.

>Also, ideally while you're 
>at it you could kick outgoing mail (and news if enabled) if it detects a DUN 
>connection has been established. I'm assuming this is reasonably possible, but 
>I haven't been deeply into DUN programming.

You can just set the kick time to be 60 seconds or something.  As long as you don't
have autodial setup (which I don't) then whenever you're connected the
mail will go and news will come down.  If you're not connected, the sockets
just time out.

>WinDIS also fell over on me last night: in the middle of a news download it 
>simply quit with no diagnostic or anything. This happened twice. On at least 
>one occasion, a piece of incoming mail was lost (leading me to suspect it 
>doesn't do a file commit and close on the mailbox file before reporting back 
>that the mail has been received correctly.)

Nope, it does a flush and a close before sending the reply.

>[One of these days I'm going to write a news server package which might 
>eventually live in WinDIS (if I can persuade Ewan/Colin), so I can use Netscape 
>2.0 or any other on-line reader for off-line reading. Of course, it'll use the 
>standard Demon files (and I wish the POP server did too...)]

I'm already working on this.  What do you mean about the pop3 server?  Surely
the pop3 server can store the mail in whatever format is convenient?

--E.