[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

[Lueko Willms]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:07:03 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:

> >  But here we have several separate programs using one and the same
> >file, and which do not communicate on what to do with the file after
> >using it. 
> 
> BUT, that is a 'cop-out.'  The 'separate programs' in this case are all
> PART OF THE *SAME PACKAGE* that is called PMMail.  

  No, the various programs activated for viewing and processing an
attached file are NOT part of a package called PMMail. I don't think
any one of those programs has a mechanism to tell a master task that
it has ended and the master task is free to delete the files being
used. 

> Again, you are telling me what is happening, not what CAN happen with
> appropriate changes.  If it is a problem of naming the file [e.g., as
> someone else suggested xxxxx.ATT to match the xxxxx.MSG], then so be
> it.  
  
   That someone was me. And I still think that it is a sensible
solution. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@T-Online.de