Hello Martin,
On 27-Jun-99, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> When you open two copies of MD-II, create in one of it a new mail folder,
> quit this one, and after this quit the other one, the last one will save
> the index without the mail folder you created in the first one. The mails
> that you eventually copied to it are still there, when you create it
> again, you can see this, but the index information that there is a new
> folder has been overwritten by the second copy of MD-II.
>
> Can there be internal multithreading in MD-II? So that you can open more
> than one "Group overview" window - also to show more than one email
> account at a time? When then those error requesters are also detached from
> the main process all would be fine, cause the network stuff is already
> done separately (but it would ne nice to allow parallel networking for
> each account opened in one copy of MicroDot-II running, it would also be
> nice to allow parallel mail and news download, and news download with more
> than one task... maybe up to 4, to avoid that people annoy their ISP
> administrators with MicroDot-II...)
>
> Then it would also be nice to have the possibility to move messages across
> accounts (maybe password protected, when there are passwords set for the
> users in Genesis... hopefully this will also be supported in and with
> Miami soon...).
I have a seperate complete version of MDII in another drawyer on this computer
for my wife right now. I just replaced her rev 4.4 A2000 with a rev. 6.2,
and things seem to have clamed down, but her's has been in and out of the
shop and she needed her own MDII for her work.
Anyway by installing MDII seperately in that drawyer, there is no overwrite of
prefs like you describe between the two copies of MDII, but I can't easily
transfer data from one copy to the other. In this case that doesn't matter,
but having to use MailImport.mdrx to import news and mail is a PTIA. You
have to either export it to a seperate file and then import it, or go through
every drawyer in Data and import the mail from each one. Either way it is
not optimal, because you can only import into the incoming folder, and then
you can only export into private folders -- you can't put the news in the
newsgroups.
About all the two copies share is the same MUI screen and prefs. Settings
within Microdot are completely independent. It looks like your way you can
share data, but loose prefs from one to the other, and my way it's like they
were seperate programs. It would be nice to have both shared data, and
independence of prefs (folders and subscriptions), but that doesn't seem
possible with the current version. This same problem dates back to .198,
BTW, brcause prior to 1.2 and selective news article downloading, I used to
run one copy of MDII in online mode and one in offline mode. I discovered
how hard data transfer was when I had data in one copy I wanted to import
into the other, so I could close out the other copy. I had to resubscribe to
all the newsgroups in the other copy too. There was simply no easy way to
merge the data and groups from the two copies of MDII.
Regards,
--
Mike Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] + team Amiga +
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