no we don't need 1MB but we need to get about 20 some odd domain names as hosts aliases. My critisicm of the registry choice may have been incorrect, however my beef is the 255 limit.
Whether or not the 512 chars will work is a matter of me just figuring out how many of our domains will fit into that length. I have yet to try but thanks for the info on how to do it. Regardless I really am not sure about using a product where I need to hack the registry to get the product to work for me. if it happens in this one place there is certainly to be other places. Not to mention the behavior of the the interface truncating with no error message, no help doc on the limit etc, raises red flags about the product in general. -aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] host aliases > >c. they use the registry for alot of this data when they could store > >it inan outside file for unlimited length. > > The Registry is read from RAM, so it is faster than disk files. > REG_MULTI_SZ values can be up to 1 MB of total length; if you had more > than 1 MB of ASCII text for your host aliases, that's a major design > flaw. > > The problems are indeed within Imail, but have nothing to do with > Ipswitch's choice of the Registry. First, they don't give > context-sensitive help regarding the text box; second, the length of > the text box does not reflect their code accurately, as they are able > to parse considerably more data when it is entered directly into > actual data source. > > Are you still having problems, even with the 512-character upgrade? > > Sandy > > P.S. You'll come to find that this list is the major source of support for > the product. You're welcome to vent, but remember that we're here to > help (in the middle of the night, to boot) and don't work for > Ipswitch. We wouldn't be on here giving out that help if we hadn't > come to love Imail despite its weaknesses. Also, I think we'll all be > more comfortable if you could sign off with a first name, even if it's > a pseudonym :)). > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
