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- From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 24 Jan 96 02:38:33 +0100
- Organization: UNINETT news service
- Message-ID: <2186.6597T158T1665@stud.cs.uit.no>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no> <Kevin_Phair.041x@bgi.internet-eireann.ie>
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- >kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens) writes:
-
- >> Yes, and? That's the whole point. Of course there are other nice things
- >> too, such as not kludgy Reply-To: lines, progress indicators, subscribing
- >> etc.
-
- >GRn has progress indicators,
-
- For offline reading? On news download? Not if you use nntpxfer anyway!
-
- >subcribing/junking etc. I don't know what
- >you mean by 'kludgy' Reply-To lines,
-
- Kludgy reply-to: lines in mail headers for people with dynamic IP-addresses.
-
- >> >unwieldy, bulky, unintuitive, somewhat ugly, and quite inappropriate
- >> >for my needs, but that's *my* opinion,
- >> What "needs" do you have then?
-
- >I belong to three mailing lists, so I like to have four separate
- >mailboxes, one for my normal address, and one each for the mailing
- >lists. I get filewatcher to keep an eye on them, and for the aminet
- >list mailbox I get it to automatically run an ARexx script to process
- >the new message. I also have a script that runs on startup and
- >forwards any mail for unrecognised users to my A1200's address.
-
- In what way does this work better with other programs than Thor? I can't see
- any problems with Thor and this situation.
-
- >I also participate in FidoNet, and up until a while back did so on two
- >different systems. When I tried setting up THOR with this it didn't
- >work out very well because I had to go through a multitude of windows
- >to get it all set up, it certainly wasn't anywhere near as easy as
- >April (which is what I was using, and still use) to get set up. Once I
- >had it up and running (sort of) it was far too slow - perhaps because
- >of there being so many windows to navigate, as well as a backfill hook
- >that seemed relatively slow
-
- Do you have a 68000? You don't have to use backdrops. The Fido module has
- improved a lot lately.
-
- >| Kev@Scorpio.ie | <*> Babylon 5: Our last best hope for
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