[pmmail-list] PMMail/2... other issues

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I should say wrt the SMTP problem above, I'm using 
PMMail/2 for OS/2 (I trust I'm on the right list).

Two other issues:

1) I'm having a hard time getting batchfiles to 
run under MIME associations.  I can't remember if 
I've ever gotten this working, but -- what I'd 
most like to do is use "antiword" to translate 
Word files into something else.  I've got a 
batchfile called "antiword2.cmd" that contains the 
following:

ANTIWORD.EXE -t %1 
>F:\SOUTHSDE\ATTCH\e-z_word\stink.txt
start/f e.exe F:\SOUTHSDE\ATTCH\e-z_word\stink.txt

Under MIME associations in PMMail I've created one 
called "Word files."  Under "Program to execute" 
is the fully qualified path/filename; under 
"Arguments" is %s.  The "Working Directory" is the 
location of the batchfile; program type is OS/2 
Window.  

Every time I double click on a *.doc attachment, I 
get a popup:

Couldn't start external program.

rc==191

Please check external program settings and try the 
operation again


2) The other is a scary reprise of an old PMMail/2 
glitch.

I was playing around (trying various ways of 
getting the antiword batchfile to work) and 
suddenly all the messages disappeared from my 
inbox folder -- and all the rest of them in the 
same account, too.  I tried reindexing the folder, 
but still it came up empty.  I quit PMMail 
immediately, and look at the directories via FC/2, 
and sure enough, there the messages were.  

This seems like some kind of horrible variant of 
the more traditional PMMail bug where hundreds of 
messages disappear but reappear on reindexing.  
But in this case, 1) the folder emptied totally, 
and 2) I had to restart before the reindexing 
worked.

-Ray Tennenbaum
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