[3301] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Mail and News Readers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Thu Nov 7 21:58:17 1996
From: smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org (Joerg Mertin)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:05:40 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: smurphy@antares.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
In-Reply-To: <327FCB16.25DC38B1@iceonline.com> from Borg at "Nov 5, 96 03:17:42 pm"
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According to Borg:
> robob wrote:
> ......
> > Wow, To me Agent is the BEST one and I wish there was something like
> > that for Linux. Agent can find binary parts (multimedia is what I dl'ed
> > not warez) and download all the pieces, decompress, and launch the right
> > viewer>
>
> Better yet, Netscape newsreader displays JPEG attachemnts
> posted in newsgroups in the same window and uudecoded,
> without having to launch anything. I am sure, under
> "Options -> General Preferences -> Helpers" you can configure
> it to launch multimedia apps as well, such as bplay, midiplay,
> real audio and xanim.
Well, knews is good at this too. It displays jpg and png if the
mimetype header is correct. Also, it looks at the mailcap and the
mime.type files andcan thus display or start all kind of applications
for this. I'm using it all the time. It's good looking, Fast and
small. The last thing I would ever start is Netscape for reading mails
or News ...
cu
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