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.



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