Subj : EDIT text editor
To   : Ken Hrynchuk
From : Craig Healy
Date : Thu Nov 14 2002 04:04 pm

-> JD> My main BBS also has the Blue Wave Door, which did mysterious
-> JD> things to my last-read pointers and selected conferences, so all I
-> JD> use is QWK- format mail.

->Jimmy, I'd be quite surprised if it was MultiMail's fault that your
->reply packet got corrupted. I have a hunch that it's related to your
->earlier reported problems with corrupted mail packets. Causes could
->include hard drive/file system trouble, file transfer protocol problems,
->or glitches at the BBS end. Probably the easiest test would be to switch
->BBSes for a while (no disrespect to your current Sysop intended, here).

I'm sysop at Chowdanet.  There have been two users out of the number on
here who do offline mail who have had the problem.  Unfortunately, both
ran MM at the time.  Nobody else has had anything like this.  The other
user besides Jimmy has switched to another OLR, and there's been no
problem.  Also, she had no problems before she went to MM.

To be honest, my guess is that it's something unique to the combination
of Wildcat 4 and Multimail.  The other user tied it to editing an existing
message.  Since I don't use an OLR, I can't help much.  I've tried to
find a way to have WC move the uploaded packets to a holding area for
later review, but there's been no luck.  It appears to be some internal
Wildcat routine which I can't seem to break into.

As I've mentioned, I'm more than willing to work with the author to try
to figure what's happening.

-c-

sysop@chowda.com

--- ViaMAIL!/WC v1.60d
 * Origin: Chowdanet (401-331-0615) telnet://chowdanet.com  (1:323/120)

.