Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:30:01 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: G <G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem Message-ID: <36BB9B19.E697B2A@uk.radan.com> 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>
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Greg Black wrote:
>
> > Oh well, I'll struggle through some how. *grin*
> >
> > > >From my experience, many of the replies will be along the lines of
> > > "....get yourself a proper mailer...." ;-)
> >
> > Mercifully, I haven't had any of them, yet. Phew. ;o}
>
> Let me be the first then :-)
>
> 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, you have to learn how to use these things, but that's true
> of anything that's worth using. And you already know how to use
> your editor, so that frees you from learning that part.
>
> --
> Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
--
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was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
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