PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[Agents]

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:53:01 +1100 (EDT), John Angelico wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:56:17 -0700, Chris Adams wrote:
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>>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.
>>
>>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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>Hmm. Funny, I would agree with the authors on this one. 
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>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.
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>I have been running TCP/IP v4.1 for a long while and just upgraded to v4.2. 
>
>It just goes to show: YMMV
>

I would like you to do the following test.  Download let's say 20 large messages in PMMail/2, while *this is still going on*, deliberatly disconnect the phone line, and have 
your dialer automatically re-establish the connection.  I bet that PMMail gets stuck and will not recover.  At least in my hands, I then have to close down PMMail/2 and 
reload it and it then begins to download the 20 messages again.  

>
>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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