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From: Karel Bosschaart <karelj@kayjay.nl>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> 	I've just tried 'sylpheed' again.  --This time I do have pop3 and
> 	IMAP.  After I set up the configuration, (pointing at
> 	ns1.thought.org), when I tried to "get" mail, I was asked to
> 	input a password.  I typed in my password for kline on ns1 and
> 	sylpheed quit immediately.  

As I don't use sylpheed I don't know about this one.

> 	evolution works with sendmail, so it worked far more easily.
> 	There is nothing to set up.  The thing with evolution is that
> 	when I see an http://URL and mouseclick on it, nothing happens.
> 	I would expect that mozilla or firefox would popup at the URL,
> 	but no such luck.  (I didn't see anyplace that associates 
> 	evolution with a browser.)

See 
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-August/032253.html
for a solution/workaround.

> 	Are there any GUI mailers that use sendmail and that open an
> 	underlined URL with <browser-whatever>?  On my daughter's RH-8
> 	system stuff works out-of-the-box.  Somehow.  But I'm getting
> 	ready to replace the RH swith something called Ubuntuu.  

I recently started using Thunderbird (on OS X though, not FreeBSD) and 
like it until now.

HTH,
Karel.