Subj : Re: Offline Mail Reader
To : August Abolins
From : Jon Watson
Date : Sat Sep 25 2004 09:57 pm
August Abolins wrote to Jon Watson:
AA> I was going to recommend SemPoint. I'm glad you were able to discover
it.
AA> I have used it since 1992 (I think). As you discovered, it handles QWK
AA> packet messages like a database. You never have to worry about managing
AA> individual packets. I use it in "Fidonet" mode by fetching actual
AA> fido-type packets from a fido "feed".
I've actually deleted it at this time. I really liked it, it had a lot of
neat
features, but I found it unreliable. For example, whenever I clicked on
another
application to bring it to the front (in windows), Sempoint would give me a
runtime error and crash. As well I found that about 50% of the time it would
corrupt the packets - each of my areas would show up with the same messages
in
them.
I tried reinstalling it...deleting my BBS and re-adding it...everything I
could
think of, but eventually it became clear that it was unreliable and I had to
get rid of it.
So, I'm back using BlueMail but I really woud like a Windows application to
do
offline mail with.
