Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:14:36 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem Message-ID: <19990207081436.5959.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36BB9B19.E697B2A@uk.radan.com> of Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:30:01 GMT 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>
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> > 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 <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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