PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[John Angelico]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:56:17 -0700, Chris Adams wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:24:19 -0500, Agents wrote:
>
>>Clearly this is time consuming and extremely annoying.  Since this is a universal problem I would 
like to hear if this complaint 
>>has been passed on to Southsoft previously and if they showed any interest in addressing it.  I 
have not had any luck.
>
>The basic problem is that PMMail does no timeout checking of any sort on
>network connections. I reported this to Bob & Icon awhile back and was
>told I couldn't be seeing what I was seeing. This was about the time I
>stopped recommending PMMail to friends & coworkers.


Hmm. Funny, I would agree with the authors on this one. 

I have iLink set to redial if I lose the line but when this happens, my PMMail v2.00.1500 doesn't miss 
a beat.

I have been running TCP/IP v4.1 for a long while and just upgraded to v4.2. 

It just goes to show: YMMV


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group Inc.
Email: talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
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