Questions for PMMail Tech Support

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:25:39 -0400 (EDT), Ralph Cohen wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:43:34 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Francis wrote:
>
>
>>First let me pat you on the back for a great set of questions.
>>I'll be interested to hear the answers from someone (official) at BSW.
>>
>
>Thanks, Bruce.  You and me both.<g>
>
>>Second, although I never use HTML for email, I will be glad
>>to be able to receive an HTML email here in PMMail/2    *without*
>>having to discard every one of them out of abject fear that just
>>touching one and having the "preview" window open at the same
>>time will indeed   _crash_   PMMail/2, requiring me to have to
>>reload all of the messages again upon restarting the client.
>>   (What a wonderful bug .... wonder if it is fixed yet, or soon to be?)
>>       [.... or even on the "list" ?]
>
>Fortunately, this has never been a problem for me, although I have seen
>it reported by others.  My preview window is always open so I'm often
>only able to recognize that I'm looking at a HTML message because
>either the formatting is all screwed up or because there are text only
>links in the message and not URL's that I can click on.  Quite
>honestly, it never bothered me too much before I had the opportunity to
>work with PMMail 2k and I quickly became spoiled by the ease and
>convenience of viewing formatted HTML messages in the preview window.  
>
>As far as I'm concerned, ease and convenience are desireable traits in
>an email program so why not make it happen in PMMail/2 as well? 
>Besides, as much as some people may hate to admit it, there are certain
>types of emails, such as news summaries and advertisements, that are
>much easier to use and view in HTML than in plain text. (There, I said
>it... let the flames begin!!<g>)  
>
>
>Ralph
>rpcohen@neurotron.com
>

I have to agree here ... running OS/2 PMMail's rendering of mail is even worse than the Win32 implementation IMO ...
That is, no direct clicks on URLs or EMAIL addresses ... kind of minor I guess but I much prefer how the Win32 version handles that stuff ... 
different color ... single click and boom away you go ...

Plus, as someone else noted already, much digest mail comes only as HTML ...
I think it's time to back away from the "pure" text stance ...

Besides, if having the same feature sets between Win32/OS2 means some extra weight for PMMail then I'm all for it ... I really like PMMail and 
have been using it since the version 1.5x days and I DO NOT want to have to go a different route ... We use Outlook at work for all kinds of 
stuff and IMO it really sucks eggs ...