At 1:26 PM +1200 8/18/00, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> What makes you say that Eudora's timeout is per transaction instead
>> of for network inactivity?
>
> Bitter experience.
>
>> I checked with both the Mac and Windows
>> Eudora client team, and was told that Eudora's timeout, while five
>> minutes by default, is how long it waits after receiving network data
>> for it to receive any more.
>
> 2.* and 3.* both have 60 second connect and collect defaults (not 300
> seconds) and I've watched both versions decide a message is taking too
> long to download while the modem is still streaming away happily.
>
> AB
2.x and 3.x are very ancient. I don't have any copies laying about
to try, so I can't say if those very outdated versions behave as
you say.
However, if you have any users still on 2.x or 3.x (or even 1.x),
why not have them upgrade? 4.3 is available for free. 5.0 is in
public beta (also free).
