Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, this is drifting way off-topic, but I'll give it one last shot... Andre Berger wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when > > I switch > > folders! I'd just use somethin

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Andre Berger
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger wrote: > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when I > switch > folders! I'd just use something else, but I like Netscape; hopefully Mozilla > will solve > my problems. :-) I don't really understand

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, this is drifting way off-topic, but I'll give it one last shot... Andre Berger wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when I switch > > folders! I'd just use something el

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Andre Berger
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger wrote: > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when I switch > folders! I'd just use something else, but I like Netscape; hopefully Mozilla will >solve > my problems. :-) I don't really understand wh

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unless you specify -a > (all msgs, seen or not). Cool. > Note that I said (or meant) in my original posting I have turned off > automatic retrieval in Netscape. If you combine Netscape and Xbiff or > anything else that tells you n

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unless you specify -a > (all msgs, seen or not). Cool. > Note that I said (or meant) in my original posting I have turned off > automatic retrieval in Netscape. If you combine Netscape and Xbiff or > anything else that tells you

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Andre Berger
Adam, the thing I described works flawlessly here. Personally I don't use Netscape (I use GNUs) but my family does. I wanted a possibility to check all (every user's) mail at once and automatically when our common machine goes online, and it works. The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unle

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Andre Berger
Adam, the thing I described works flawlessly here. Personally I don't use Netscape (I use GNUs) but my family does. I wanted a possibility to check all (every user's) mail at once and automatically when our common machine goes online, and it works. The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unl

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Stefan Meister
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:23:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time > > networked. Just ain't so anymore. > > It's partly that, but it's also because the application isn't really the > right place to fix things like this. It's simple

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Stefan Meister
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:23:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time > > networked. Just ain't so anymore. > > It's partly that, but it's also because the application isn't really the > right place to fix things like this. It's simpl

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 11:47:47AM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: > I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time > networked. Just ain't so anymore. It's partly that, but it's also because the application isn't really the right place to fix things like this. It's simpler to have

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > > > That's a lot of wo

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Cory Snavely
Wow, yeah, that would work. Good job! I wanted to avoid building the whole thing myself, you see. In the Windows 98 build you actually do a File->Offline->something or other that lets you read (and browse) in an offline mode. It uses the IMAP cache and the browser cache to do this. Probably it's

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 11:47:47AM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: > I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time > networked. Just ain't so anymore. It's partly that, but it's also because the application isn't really the right place to fix things like this. It's simpler to have

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > > > That's a lot of w

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Cory Snavely
Wow, yeah, that would work. Good job! I wanted to avoid building the whole thing myself, you see. In the Windows 98 build you actually do a File->Offline->something or other that lets you read (and browse) in an offline mode. It uses the IMAP cache and the browser cache to do this. Probably it's

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Andre Berger
Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I thought

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Andre Berger
Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I though

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Christopher Hicks wrote: > One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before > is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition > accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) I dual boot Windows 95 and GNU/Linux 2.2.14 (

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Christopher Hicks wrote: > One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before > is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition > accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) I dual boot Windows 95 and GNU/Linux 2.2.14

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Cory Snavely
This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I thought it might be fun 8) and good practice. My biggest c

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Cory Snavely
This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I thought it might be fun 8) and good practice. My biggest

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Christopher Hicks wrote: > One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before > is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition > accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) > such that I can access

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Christopher Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [email clients on both Windows 98 and Linux] > Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does > anyone have any other suggestions? Any of the Emacs based mail programs ought to work. Or exmh (and presumably tkrat). -

Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
Hi All, Having just got my laptop back from repair (g) I am ready to reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc etc. I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato. One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before is th

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Christopher Hicks wrote: > One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before > is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition > accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) > such that I can acces

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Christopher Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [email clients on both Windows 98 and Linux] > Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does > anyone have any other suggestions? Any of the Emacs based mail programs ought to work. Or exmh (and presumably tkrat).

Laptop email

2000-07-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
Hi All, Having just got my laptop back from repair (g) I am ready to reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc etc. I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato. One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before is t