GUI mailer...
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sat May 21 09:33:10 PDT 2005
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 <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.
>
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
>
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