[pskmail] Clients
- From: Glenn Roeser <wb2lmv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:55:11 -0400
I hope that this email does not upset anyone, and I don't mean to be rude
in any way. After observing time after time after time. Clients will
connect to a server with the intent to upload or download an email, or use
one of the other functions that the server provides, only not to be able to
get done what they were trying to do. The client and the server will talk
back and forth until the server will go into it's sending polls mode. While
it is in poll sending mode the server will change to various modes trying
to get the client to accomplish the transfer of 100% data until it runs out
of the prescribed amount of retries. This happens with the client still
connected, because the client is still answering the server, with no
results, so I know an early "abort" had not been sent.
I know that my server does everything that it is supposed to do because I
have tested all it's functions myself. The only flaw is that once in a
while I will get a "Wrong Password" error message while trying to download
mail headers.
I had sent an email to one of my friends the step by step method that I use
with the server and he still was unable to get results. I watched him going
at Bob's (KB2PNM) server yesterday, over and over and over, without any
luck.
I have read in various forums that hams have tried pskmail and have given
up because."I just couldn't get it to work." I'm not sure if the intention
of the authors are to provide a program for a close knit group of campers,
and boaters, or if the authors intent is for general ham population to use
an enjoy this fantastic program and therefore the number of pskmail users
would increase. As it stands now pskmail is a very hard sell.
It seems to me that as things stand now, the client is just too complicated
for the average ham to use or there are bugs in the software that I am not
aware of. I have not been able to get any of my friends, and these are hams
that are running digital modes without any difficulty, to become successful
using pskmail.
Wishing all very 73, Glenn WB2LMV
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