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In article <jzutowae@kirk.demon.co.uk>, Ewan Kirk
<ewan@kirk.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>[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?

This may be a reference to the fact that WinDis appends incoming mail
to the file ....\ka9q\spool\mail\<user>.txt *unless* its POP3 server
is switched on, in which case incoming mail is stored in files of the
form ....\ka9q\spool\mail\<user>\nnnnnnnn.pop.

There must be a good design reason for this although it escapes me.
Unfortunately, this practice means that WinDis is unsuitable for use
as a POP3 server on a system which hosts multiple users, some of whom
wish to use POP3 mailers and others wish to use KA9Q-compatible
mailers such as NewsWin or FiMail.     It is for precisely this reason
that I have to use TPOP3 as a local POP3 server instead of WinDis
which I would much prefer to use, if only it allowed an option on the
storage of incoming mail.

Regards, Mike.

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