[pmmail-list] how's this for bizarre?

[mark davidson]

On Wed, 09 May 2001 17:49:40 -0400, John Swartzentruber wrote:

thanks for your guess.  mine is a completely standalone pc so can write
permissions even be a factor?  

all was fine until this beta.  just in case, i reinstalled pmmail
2.20.2320 under win98se to see if perhaps something wasn't updated in
the win98 registry but that also had no effect.  pretty strange ...

thanks again.  regards, .. mark davidson .. 

>>i run pmmail under win2k and win98se from a common (d:) drive.
>>with the current beta (2.20.2320) installed under 
>>win2k, i can see message text in win2k but running under win98se, 
>>-every- message appears to be completely blank.  
>>the source (.msg) files are fine.  reindexing has no effect.  
>>
>>what's up with this one?  anyone have any ideas for a solution?
>
>I'll guess:
>
>When I copied my PMMail directories to a CD-R, I could see the
>messages, but every message appeared blank. My guess is that under
>Win98se, you don't have write permissions to the drive where the
>program is installed. I believe PMMail creates temporary files there.
>
>Blueprintsoftwareworks: If this is correct, please change this to use
>the Windows temporary directory. It would make the product more useful
>if it can be used in read-only situations (for archives, etc.).
>
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