On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:06:25 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

> DISCUSSION AND WISHLIST RE SEND MAIL AND GET MAIL.

> I have set up my own personal control page to include the buttons Send
> Mail and Get Mail.

> I click on one of these buttons and the respective operation SMPT:  or
> POP3: takes place. Meanwhile I am looking at my own page as the mail is
> up or downloaded. But as soon as the Send or Get is finished, I am
> transferred to either the (now empty) Outbox or to the Inbox.

> And that prompts a question: What earthly use is it to be presented with
> the empty Outbox once the SMPT: function has finished uploading the
> mail, other than to show you that all the mail has been uploaded? And
> surely if the upload was aborted for any reason there would be an error
> message to that effect.

Upload at my provider is sometimes not done (1 in 6 times) without any
error message. If there are long files to be sent the upload time is
very short and I'll be warned by that.
Otherwise the outbox is not empty and I am warned too.

Regards, Bastiaan


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