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- From: mike@larry.utah.com (Mike Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:31:07 -0800
- Organization: Stick on a String, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4f6i1r$2q7@larry.utah.com>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: reqb-057.ucdavis.edu
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0]
-
- Also sprach Kjell Irgens:
- : 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?
-
- Personally, I'd rather have my machine's name in the from field, with the
- reply-to field containing my "real" EMail address. Maybe it's just me,
- but I like to stick to the RFC.
-
- : 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.
-
- Well, you have now. Upgrade? I'd love to. Someone want to send me an '030
- card for free? Problem is, as a college student I have to make choices:
- rent or '030?
-
- : >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.
-
- Much faster, period. You have to remember- my news server is a Linux box
- not ten feet from the Amiga. Downloading all that news, then reading it
- is just pointless when the server's 10 feet of 10 MBPS ethernet cable
- away.
-
- : r-xr-xr-x 1 root 5390336 Feb 4 19:31 /usr/local/bin/netscape2.bin
- : ^^^^^^^
- : More than 5 meg on this HP workstation...
-
- -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 4014084 Jan 23 18:20 netscape*
-
- Only 4 megs on my Linux box. :-/
-
- : So you don't reply to postings in mail? I do it all the time myself.
-
- Not very often, and when I do, I'd rather save the article in question
- out as a file, then load it into my mailer and send it on its way.
-
- : 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.
-
- So thor can open my NFS mounted mailbox, read my mail, then put it back
- in in the same format as it took it out, so when I read mail the next
- time with pine or elm or mail they won't freak out? Working with
- InetUtils is a big plus as well.
-
- If it can read news online via NNTP as well (and use a standard newsrc,
- of course), then I might just have to check it out!
-
-
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