PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[Chris Adams]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:52:30 -0500, Agents wrote:

>>>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. 
>>
>>I was told that the TCP/IP stack in OS/2 automatically does this.
>>Certainly other applications I used seemed to handle this...
>
>I doubt that.  An example -- if you are downloading a large webpage in Netscape and *while still downloading the page* the 
>connection is lost and your dialer then re-establishes the connection Netscape will probably have timed out and you have to 
>reload the page.

Not automatic resume but detecting that the connection was dropped.
Netscape times out. My FTP clients time out. Just about everything times
out, except PMMail.
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