Attachment bug in PMMail/2 2.10 (and all other versions?)

[Marty Abrego]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:32:31 +0000 (GMT), Simon Bowring wrote:

>An annoying bug in PMMAIL/2 (2.10 and previous) relates to 
>not sending attached files.
>
>I regularly attach files which reside on network drives (Windows 98
>and Unix running samba), which don't get sent and no error is reported
>at any stage.
>
>The problem occurs when a remote app (like MS Word) has the file open
>(presumably with read access denied).
>
>When I attach such a file (and send the message), everything appears 
>to work fine, but the person I am sending it to receives a zero-length 
>file!
>
>This is very bad and causes a bad impression with my customers.
>
>I have no idea if this problem occurs with local filesystems/apps, 
>but it is a serious bug (for me).
>
>Please, please, please can someone fix this?
>

I wish I could fix it!  Unfortunately, I can only confirm that the
problem also exists on PM Mail/2 v1.96a...
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