Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Telsa Gwynne
I asked about the attractions of graphical mailers: > >I am very curious to know what X-based mailers have that console > >mailers don't. Note that I can view URLs and display pictures in mutt > >when I run it in X, so that doesn't count! Thanks for the responses :) Britta: > I think it's not

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread aprilk
Tania M. Morell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I've used Berkeley unix and SunOS for years at my university but not >linux. I use Mandrake at work and RedHat intermittently at home but I've >yet to understand the differences between them.. Maybe I haven't used >them long enough to figure

Re: [techtalk] ICQ client

2000-02-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Siobhan, I'm a little late jumping in this discussion, but I really like KICQ, the KDE ICQ client. It is on the Red Hat Power Tools CD, or is downloadable in RPM form from their FTP site. Take care, Caity [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] Re: IRC Client

2000-02-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Patricia wrote: > I use ksirc, comes with KDE > works great I agree, and there is yet another KDE IRC client called KVIRC. Choice is a good thing :) -Caity [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
> I'm looking for: > > * Something that isn't netscape mail. > * Supports multiple user accounts on multiple servers. > * Supports kill-files, or has a scripting interface that allows > spam-blocking. > * Allows channeling of incoming traffic into multiple folders. > * And, fo

[techtalk] strange mail behavior

2000-02-20 Thread Samantha Atkins
I am experiencing something peculiar with sendmail. First my set up is that I have two other domains all sharing the same IP address. I would like mail to x@domain1 and x@domain2 to simply go to x@localhost. I found the sendmail.cw file as a logical place to express that my machine has several

Re: [techtalk] strange mail behavior

2000-02-20 Thread JDF
I have had the same problem with redhat 6.1.. I fixed it by adding the host(s) in /etc/mail/relay-domains, not sure if it exists by default.. but hopefully that will fix your problems. .---. |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |http://www.LinuxFreak.org | `--

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations [snipped: differences between GUI and character-based mail displays] > So it seems to be "more information at

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Caitlyn M. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations > KMail meets the above requirements. You'll need to install QT and some of > KDE to make it run, but y

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Feb-100 Re: [techtalk] X Mail clien.. by "Dan McGarry"@moodindigo > One of my pet peeves with XEMACS (of all things) is that by default > it requires cutting and pasting to be done by mouse. The whole reason > I use XEMACS is to have the powerful keyboard interface *a

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Shad Young
Just my 2c. But Kmail has some nasty bugs. Reports are that the version that will come with kde 2.0 will fix the problems, but for now it is problematic. It has a tendency to core dump a lot and hang X every now and again. There are also serious problems with reply addressing, and wordwrap is a w

Re: [techtalk] strange mail behavior

2000-02-20 Thread Shad Young
Samantha Atkins wrote: > Also, I am using Netscape 4.7 Communicator for email. Does anyone know > if it has a habit of sometimes losing mail? I tried using kmail but it > is pretty primitive (at least before KDE2.0) and has some strange > behavior of its own. I have used evey version of Netsca

Re: [techtalk] strange mail behavior

2000-02-20 Thread Phil V Savoie
At 20:55 20/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >Samantha Atkins wrote: > >> Also, I am using Netscape 4.7 Communicator for email. Does anyone know >> if it has a habit of sometimes losing mail? I tried using kmail but it > >I have used evey version of Netscape since 3.0 in Linux. I have never >had a mail e

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Shad Young wrote: > Just my 2c. > > But Kmail has some nasty bugs. Reports are that the version that will > come with kde 2.0 will fix the problems, but for now it is problematic. > It has a tendency to core dump a lot and hang X every now and again. > There are also serious problems with reply a

[techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-20 Thread GJS
I was trying to install a tarball and got this message: Checking host system type...Configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one. What does this mean and how do I fix it? = Glen Strom [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Ta

[techtalk] Epson Stylus Color 300

2000-02-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, Has anyone managed to get a 300 to work under Linux/GhostScript? My understanding is that it isn't supported. My roommate is finally talking about migrating from Windows to Linux, but unfortunately he has one of these printers. Oh, and I know most every other Epson Stylus works w

Re: [techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:22PM -0800, GJS wrote: > I was trying to install a tarball and got this message: > > Checking host system type...Configure: error: can not guess host > type; you must specify one. > > What does this mean and how do I fix it? > /me dons magic psychic hat of power /

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Kiesling
"Dan McGarry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote an article recently comparing the readily-available E-mail > > clients for Linux. If you want an integrated environment, look at > > KDE's Kmail or Star Office. If you don't mind the user interface, > > then Emacs's VM or Gnus lisp packages a

Re: [techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-20 Thread JDF
simply add --host= to ./configure. .---. |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |http://www.LinuxFreak.org | `---' - On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:22PM -0800, GJS wr

Re: [techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-20 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Feb-100 [techtalk] Installing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (432*) by > Checking host system type...Configure: error: can not guess host > type; you must specify one. > > What does this mean and how do I fix it? I assume this is from running ./configure. Correct me if I'm wron

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Kiesling
"Tania M. Morell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the main differences between distributions of linux like > RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Caldera... etc. Can anyone tell me? I'll try to explain this as coherently as possible. Caldera and Mandrake are very similar to Red Hat, which was the

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread moebius
Hey All, Slackware was around before redhat, it's just got a lot less publicity nowadays. On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Robert Kiesling wrote: > I'll try to explain this as coherently as possible. Caldera and > Mandrake are very similar to Red Hat, which was the original. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[techtalk] Lisp (was: X Mail client recommendations)

2000-02-20 Thread Jenn V.
Robert Kiesling wrote: > It's not one of my favorite languages either. I'm afraid I don't know > of any documentation besides what's in the distribution. I guess the > usual advice from the Emacs gurus would be "use the source." Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'you don't know of any Lisp docume

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:47:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > Slackware was around before redhat, it's just got a lot less publicity > nowadays. > I've been very disappointed in Slackware, lately. Originally for not support glibc2, and then for their silly version jump from 4.0

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Kiesling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > Slackware was around before redhat, it's just got a lot less publicity > nowadays. Oops. I knew that. I guess I meant that Red Hat was the first distribution to use RPM packages, and to make it onto the shelves of regular stores, like Compu[Add|World|Plus

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread Jamie Walker
Dan Nguyen wrote: > I've been very disappointed in Slackware, lately. Originally for not > support glibc2, and then for their silly version jump from 4.0 to 7.0. The lack of glibc2 support was apparently for stability reasons. I've been using glibc2 for the last year and had no problems with it

Re: [techtalk] Lisp (was: X Mail client recommendations)

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Kiesling
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'you don't know of any Lisp documentation > besides what's in the Emacs distribution'? Are those the missing > adjectives? We were talking about the VM mail client specifically. That's the distribution I was referring to. I k

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread moebius
Hey Dan, I hear you there. But Slack will always have a soft spot for me. It was the headaches and long nights of trying to install Slack 1.? that woke me up from using brain-dead OS's. Harry On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:47:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread moebius
Hey Jaimie, Still have that version here at home. (hehe) Harry > of the others have. (ie, RH's first version was v3 if I remember > correctly). [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Lisp (was: X Mail client recommendations)

2000-02-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:58:14 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'you don't know of any Lisp >documentation besides what's in the Emacs distribution'? Are those >the missing adjectives? There are _lots_ of good books on LISP out there. The Little LISPer is a

Re: [techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-20 Thread Shad Young
"Caitlyn M. Martin" wrote: SNIP > FWIW, I use it daily for my VNet account, and I do like it. So do I. It has potential. Everybodys milage varies of course. Its nicest feature IMO is its multiple account handling capability. Shad -- "Fear is the foundation of obedience." Vladimir Lenin "Wit