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>I would just like to add my voice into the call for any documentation
>at all for this program.  I have just started trying to use it and have
>been frustrated over several things.

There is documentation a plenty, you just need to own a mac :)
Well, not quite, there is a huge manual for the Mac in ms-word format, which
Windows can handle once you change the names to protect the innocent, and
either track down a copy of unstuffit for the pc or persuade someone to
convert them to zip for you (if there's enough interest I may do this --
presuming folks at Qualcomm don't object). Of course then you run into
all sorts of things that can't be done on the free PC version...
(in my opinion $50 is well worth it for the commercial version though,
I'm just waiting for my college to get a full site license)

>Maybe I just don't understand how it is supposed to work.  I thought
>that Eudora was supposed to go out to my mail server, pull down the
>mail messages, allow me to read the messages and send new ones, and
>then put the updated mailbox back onto the mail server adding any new
>messages that may have arrived.  Maybe it doesn't work this way?

That's not quite the way POP works. You could get Eudora to work that way
as it will happily read unix mailboxes as long as you add .mbx to the name,
but it works more along the lines of your unix account. There is a spool
of unread mail which sits there and when you read mail it moves out of the
spool to your directory. After that the spool forgets about it. You can check
the option "leave mail on server" but that means that if you are using Eudora
for a while you get an awful lot of messages 3 or 4 times over as the server
beleives you've never read it. The way I read things, you have two accounts
which just have one spool of mail between them. What I do is use my Powerbook
as my main mail centre, but can use my unix account when I need to (and to
filter out large ftp-mail before it hurts my slip connection). If I think I'll
need to keep a copy of sent mail, I cc: it to my POP account.

>Maybe I just don't have things set up correctly, but how the hell am
>I supposed to know that if there isn't any documentation.

I think they just presume that you know what you are getting into when
you use a POP server, and that you know the differences between POP and
SMTP. Does someone want to convert the Mac Q&A Hypercard Stack to Windows
help format?

On other topics...
I have about 48 separate and quite full mail boxes split accross about 12
'folders' (like you really file mail into directories...).

I think people have pointed out the difference between nicknames and recipients,
on the mac the list scrolls...

Another thing we can do is just dial-up and navigate terminal servers without
a SLIP/PPP connection...

Just a couple of comments. Steve Dorner has come up with a wonderful product,
I think that Qualcomm deserve a lot of thanks for providing a free PC version
despite the attitude of some within the company that the free version is their
greatest competitor. Now, does anyone want to join my campaign to get an version
for X-terms...

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I can POST just fine using winTrump but when
I try to Followup I get a "Posting Failed" error.

Please help?

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>>... once we're in Chicago (Windows 4.0) and beyond there won't
>>be a DOS to load the real mode packet drivers in

OK...so let's say I get Chicago (through a Beat test progra mor when it is
released).  Does this mean I can't run a packet driver and winpkt (and a
multiplexor and virtual packet drivers)?  Or will there be some other way of
loading drivers.  I assume there won't really be any sort of "autoexec.bat,"
since there is no DOS.

Mike
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