From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 00:51:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25169 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 00:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA25146 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 00:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 5960 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Feb 1999 08:14:36 -0000 Message-ID: <19990207081436.5959.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:14:36 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem References: <36BAD806.7E0487DC@Swansea.ac.uk> <36BAE6B9.4744F866@uk.radan.com> <36BAEB62.A4264159@Swansea.ac.uk> <36BAEEC0.546C0B05@uk.radan.com> <36BB024E.44EF4142@Swansea.ac.uk> <19990205202648.11897.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <36BB9B19.E697B2A@uk.radan.com> In-reply-to: <36BB9B19.E697B2A@uk.radan.com> of Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:30:01 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Seriously, netscape is barely useful in its real role as a web > > browser and is completely unsuited to taking on other tasks on > > top of that. Why "struggle" with it when Unix systems have a > > plethora of *good* mail user agents, all of which allow you to > > use the editor of your choice to do the serious part of the job > > while providing a range of configurable options to control the > > way the mail is handled. > > I agree with you Greg, but can you offer a solution to this? > > Out of necessity my machine triple boots W95/NT4/FreeBSD 2.2.8. I'm > looking for a system whereby I can have common mail boxes/folders > (stored on the FAT partition) that can be read/updated by a mailer in > all 3 OS's. Someone pointed me to a Windows version of pine, I tried it, > and was very impressed but it has the disadvantage that it can't handle > POP3 mail very well. It can only deal with it online. What I need is to > be able to d/l my mail to a local Inbox (in any of the 3 OS's) and read > it off-line. > > Netscape is the closest I've found to what I'm looking for, both Windows > and Unix versions can read thesame mail files but the Unix version > doesn't work too well with the Windows mail files (e.g. I can delete a > message in FreeBSD, but in Windows it's still there :-( ). > > Any suggestions? Sure, but you may not like them. First, nobody has to use Microsoft OSes. I choose not to use them, so I have no suggestions that would accommodate the idea of running three OSes on one machine. One of the many reasons that I don't use MS OSes is because that company wants to control how I do things and I prefer to manage that for myself -- easy with Unix. However, if there was some reason for me to have a box with W95 and/or NT4 on it, I would also have at least one FreeBSD box, since an old 486-33 with 8 MB of RAM and 130 MB of disk will do that just fine and those things are being thrown away by people who need supercomputers to run the latest rubbish from Redmond. I would use the 486 as my Internet gateway/firewall/etc and I'd hook it up to my home LAN, to which all my other actual working machines would be connected. All of a sudden, it's trivial to use Unix for everything that it should be used for ... The rest of this solution is self-evident, so I won't bore everybody with it here. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message