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Re: Netscape Mail and Communicator and Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 18 04:13:00 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 04:12:03 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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lconrad@world.std.com wrote:
> This isn't my idea of "completely offline". Completely offline
> wouldn't require you to manually do anything while connected. There
> would be a mail queue and some way for automatically sending it when
> connected.
Agreed.
Netscape does send unsent mail when you exit, but that's not
always enough.
While Netscape can check for incoming mail at intervals,
sending unsent mail at intervals is missing.
To make it really automatic, I set up Netscape to use
mail servers in the same PC as Netscape.
Netscape sends and receives just as though I'm online, when I'm not.
The local mail servers...
Sendmail queues the mail and sends on intervals.
Fetchmail pops mail from my ISP on intervals, and also
when PPP comes up for other reasons.
PPP comes up under control of diald, the on-demand dialer. Whenever
something wants to send packets out, diald dials the modem and brings up PPP.
Usually this is me going to a web page.
When the link is idle for awhile, diald hangs up again.
This could be easy to set up if sendmail and diald
installed preconfigured, with well labeled blanks to fill in.
I am convinced this is possible for a standalone dialup workstation.
As it was, three of the four packages were trivial to set up.
1. Fetchmail: install the rpm, run fetchmailconf. Done.
2. POP3/imap: install the imap rpm. No changes.
3. Sendmail: changed one line in /etc/sendmail.cf.
4. Diald: read this list, got the good version, added 4 data to 2 files.
Diald is missing 'easy setup', and broken versions exist.
That's how I got around that one missing Netscape for Linux feature.
You may wonder why I bothered:
. Netscape Communicator does everything I need in email, browsing, news, net
banking
. It looks and feels the same on every OS so I don't trip over it
. It has features I like, and does everything well if not perfectly (what
is?)
. Nothing else free does email and HTML together as fast as Netscape
. I respect, appreciate and support Netscape because they embrace
Open Source, Choice, the Internet, and every OS.
And they put up a good fight to MS, and they're not done yet!
. I love to make Linux wiggle {:})
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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