PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[Agents]

Unfortunately I got a somewhat similar cavalier response when I twice complained about this over a year ago.  I was told that 
this was a limitation of the TCP/IP stack in OS/2...  Clearly this needs to be addressed and I quite agree with you that it is hard 
to recommend a package that does not handle this problem appropriately. 

My second big gripe is that many of the timeconsuming processes in PMMail/2, e.g, sorting messages, sorting newsgroups 
etc are not spun off in separate threads and hence hog the message queue on slower computers.  I am using a 90 MHz 
Pentium equivalent and frequently have to sit and stare at my computer while PMMail is doing something instead of being 
able to do something in another application while PMMail/2 is working.  We are not talking seconds here, we are talking 
several *minutes*!  Not acceptable as well.

Hakan

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

>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:24:19 -0500, Agents wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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