Feature Request--All Versions

[Steve Lamb]

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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:47:11 -0700, Paul Wiener wrote:

>What I'd really like is a key that I can hold down while PMMail is starting
>that overrides all automatic fetches and lets me reconfigure. That's my
>feature request. Okay, go ahead Steve. Shoot me down. I'll try to take it
>like a man.

    Well, if you insist...  Start up PMMail, change the settings, shut it
down, restart.  Sure, it starts to download but, hey, 30 seconds later you
close it and restart without the fetch.

    Personally I'd rather see a different method implimented altogether.
I'm basing this off my ancient memory (*my* pmmail/2 days).  PMMail allows
you to define how large of a message to leave on the server.  However, if
one goes into the Remote Access panel and tries to download said message, it
won't allow it.

    I'd like to see the behavior changed so that PMMail will put up a flag
somewhere (staus bar?) that there are oversized messages on the server and
let Remote Access override the settings.  Since RA is an explicite request
by the user to get said message, it just seems logical.

    This way you don't get large messages, it is somewhat reasonable, can
have context help, doesn't have an esoteric startup sequence that most
people will miss *and* might possibly be fubared in context switches OS/2
and Windows love to throw at the user.

    How's that?  Not only a shoot-down, but a nice alternative all in the
same message.  Did I overdo it?  :)



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