Friday, May 19, 2000, 9:04:17 AM, A. wrote:
> Thanks to all for the MUA advice. I can see that I'm going to have to learn
> some new things (again), like MTAs. Linux has an amazing ability to laugh at
> your years as a computer professional make you feel like an idiot.
Actually I'd not do that
Thanks to all for the MUA advice. I can see that I'm going to have to learn
some new things (again), like MTAs. Linux has an amazing ability to laugh at
your years as a computer professional make you feel like an idiot.
But that's what's so [EMAIL PROTECTED] great about it.
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan Benson) writes:
[...]
>
> the only MUA for *nix that includes an MTA is bloatscape
> communicator.
Or you can look at xfmail. I've used it a long time (but now I'm using
gnus), and it's easy to setup. Inlucdes code for POP3 and IMAP, can
talk SMTP.
Burkhard
Actually it's not hard in netscape to perform filtering.
If whateverbitofmsg (eg to, sender etc) contains blah then move to
folder (or whatever action you want.)
Word wrap is in Edit/Preferences/Mail and Newsgroups/Messages/Message
Wrapping
Peter.
Mike Werner wrote:
> ... this is not true. Net
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:04:26PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> I didn't like Netscrape for mail -
Nor do I, however ...
> it word wraps in the wrong places
> and to put mail in separate folders you've either got to monkey
> around with `procmail' or endlessly drag and drop from Inbox to
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ethan> the only MUA for *nix that includes an MTA is bloatscape
Ethan> communicator.
It's better to install a MTA, like `exim', `postfix', or `sendmail'.
You can set it up so it doesn't accept connections from the net if
you li
> "A" == A Scott White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A> Ethan Benson wrote:
>> that is because outlook is broken and does not understand
>> RFC2015.
A> What Linux MUA should I use. I'd like one that has a complete feature set
A> and doesn't rely on X (I don't like X).
Gnus
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:28:15AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > that is because outlook is broken and does not understand
> > RFC2015.
>
> What Linux MUA should I use. I'd like one that has a complete feature set
> and doesn't rely on X (I don't like X).
if you don't lik
Ethan Benson wrote:
> that is because outlook is broken and does not understand
> RFC2015.
What Linux MUA should I use. I'd like one that has a complete feature set
and doesn't rely on X (I don't like X).
Also, most of the MUA's I've looked at don't clearly define a way to specify
checking a corp
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:13:51PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking
> threads
> >> existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind.
> >> =20
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking
threads
>> existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind.
>> =20
>> Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is
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Hi,
"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a
> header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting.
The In-Reply-To: header field has the message-id of the article y
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:14:17AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote:
> Ethan:
> > to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message
> > ...
> > the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in
> > MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste
> > the list add
Ethan:
> to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message
> ...
> the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in
> MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste
> the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if
> you post often create
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:38:19PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
>
> "A. Scott White" wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me exactly what this line accomplishes:
> >
> > [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> if the $GATEWAY variable has been set, run the command 'route a
`[' (the `test' command) is used to evaluate the GATEWAY environment
variable. `&&' is a shell control operator to evaluate an AND list. It is
often used like this instead of an if/then construct. The `route' command is
only executed if the test evaluated to zero, i.e., GATEWAY is set.
For details
"A. Scott White" wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me exactly what this line accomplishes:
>
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
if the $GATEWAY variable has been set, run the command 'route add
default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1.
The [ and ] are synonyms for the 'test' progra
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