[pmmail-list] Bugs in PMMail

[Ralph Cohen]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:02:48 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>in this message I'm going to list some bugs I've found in PMMail.
>Hopefully someone will fix them one time :-).
>
>1.:  Strange line breaks at end of message
>
>When I write a message and storing it in Outbox, three line breaks
>are appended to the end of the message. When I open the message
>again and then store it in Outbox again there are even more
>line breaks. Those line breaks don't look very good and are
>IMO without any sense.
>

Long noted - not yet fixed


<snip>


>3.:  Performance problem when using PMMail via LAN
>
>PMMail acts __very__ slow when the messages are stored on a network
>drive. In our company everbody using PMMail with the messages stored
>on a network drive (due to backup reasons) has this problem. Does
>BSW know why this happens or are there any plans on improving this?
>
>All this happens on PMMail 2.20.2370 on Windows 2000 German
>Version (with Service Pack 2 installed).
>

This is also a known problem with PMMail Win.  I found a solution
posted a while ago that has worked well for some of us so you may want
to give it a try.

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The speed problem of PMMail under Win98SE / Win2000 when running from a
mapped network drive is NOT a problem of Windows but one of PMMail:
Every time a message is selected for reading (Preview pane or double
click) PMMail splits header and body of the mail and transforms the
body to rich text format which is then loaded into the viewer. The
implementation of this transformation is very poor, since PMMail
converts line by line instead of reading the mail body in, converting
it in memory and writing it back to disk. This causes heavy network I/O
load! Since 98SE and 2000 cache network file I/O in a different manner
from the other Windows versions, this behaviour leads to trouble. The
solution is to let PMMail create the .rtf intermediate file on the
local disk. Unfortunately it has no setting for it nor does it obey the
standard TMP environment variable. So you have to patch the binary:

Get a Hex editor, close PMMail, search for the string ".\temp\temp.rtf"
in the file pmmailw.exe and replace it by the string "c:\tmp\temp.rtf".
Create the directory c:\tmp, if not already there and start PMMail
again. Enjoy the speed...

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Hope it helps, 

Ralph Cohen

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