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- From: kjelli@hstud8.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 01:54:26 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <4f6cci$rsa@news.uit.no>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <4ev53h$2hn@larry.utah.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hstud8.cs.uit.no
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-
- In article <4ev53h$2hn@larry.utah.com>,
- mike@amy.utah.com (Michael C. Lewis) writes:
-
- >: Like Thor does it, using a correct From: header.
- >
- >I don't know... personally, I rather like the reply-to lines. I suppose I
- >could instruct elm to lie about my address and put what I put in the
- >reply-to field in the from field, but why?
-
- Lie? Well, a good reason is that it is extremely unintuitive. Before we made
- the TCP/IP module we got tons of mails from people who had problems with
- replies to their mail bouncing. Do you mean that it is a lie when mail from me
- states From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no when I'm using pop7.cc.uit.no or something
- at the time?
-
- >: Thor is slow? Doing what? Compared tp what? It is big, I can't deny that
- >: (Small compared to Netscape though)
- >
- >To be quite honest, I haven't tried Thor in a while (last time I used it I
- >was doing the .qwk packet thing on a local BBS. It was great for that!), but
- >I remember it being quite slow. Of course I'm running a stock 68000, so
- >I'm quite used to things being slow, but Thor was almost intollerably so.
-
- Thor is not ideal for 68000 users no. But face it, isn't it time to upgrade
- now? I haven't seen a 68000 Amiga for years.
-
- >Tin is much faster, and it lets me read news directly off my server, without
- >any of this downloading business.
-
- Much faster what? Much faster reading one posting, yes. Much faster reading
- a newsgroup: no.
-
-
- >Heh, you're right about being smaller than Netscrape, though. Come to think
- >of it, ain't much bigger than Netscape. Amazing fact is that the entire
- >Amiga OS runs in less memory than Netscape.
-
- r-xr-xr-x 1 root 5390336 Feb 4 19:31 /usr/local/bin/netscape2.bin
- ^^^^^^^
- More than 5 meg on this HP workstation...
-
-
- >: > I'd much rather have one program to get the mail, one to
- >: >read the mail, one to get the news, another to read it... etc.
- >: Your choice. Why not one to answer mail and one to read? One to write
- >: messages in amiga newsgroups and one in local newsgroups? I feel that the
- >: idea of combining news and mail is a good one.
- >
- >Probably because having one to write and one to read wouldn't be a natural
- >division. News and mail, however, are quite separate, and deserve separate
- >programs to handle them.
-
- So you don't reply to postings in mail? I do it all the time myself.
-
- >In all seriousness, like I said before, I used Thor for a little while a few
- >years back, and it was pretty nice for offline qwk packet reading (I
- >eventually went back to QBlue for speed reasons), but the interface seems
- >rather tied to that heritage nowadays.
-
- QBlue's interface? Or the Thor interface you haven't seen for years?
-
- >If you update it to suport real-time NNTP feed, and of course a standard
- >ewsrc, and add unix-style mailboxes and SMTP (and of course the option to
- >add a rely-to: line in the header if you haven't already) and I'd be more
- >than happy to look into it again.
-
- You can add Reply-to: if you wish, even though it is meaningless. THOR works
- with mailboxes. Thor works with SMTP. Thor works with InetUtils if you want.
- Look at it again.
-
- >mclewis@ucdavis.edu | \\ // | Chuckwagon! Whitestag!
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