From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 16:33:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F6116A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 16:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBBC43D86 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 16:33:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4LGZabR058512; Sat, 21 May 2005 09:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4LGZZfN058511; Sat, 21 May 2005 09:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 09:35:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Karel Bosschaart Message-ID: <20050521163535.GB58429@thought.org> References: <20050520225608.GA82801@thought.org> <428F00C9.5080208@kayjay.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428F00C9.5080208@kayjay.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18++ years of service to the Unix community cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: GUI mailer... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:33:10 -0000 On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 11:35:05AM +0200, Karel Bosschaart wrote: > 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. > Thanks for your help. Last night it struck me that I might have to use another button, and using the left + right worked. --You can tell that I'm a CLI hacker.... Nutshell, at least I can free up some space! > > Are there any GUI mailers that use sendmail and that open an > > underlined URL with ? 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. > It'll be interesting to see what Ubuntu comes with//defaults to in its desktop. uNtil the past few weeks I thought Mozilla was top; then I discovered Firefox ... gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix