[99709] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Netscape Mail and Communicator and Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 16 17:10:25 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:09:50 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote:
> I am currently using Netscape for email on 5.1 - 2.0.35
>
> 1) Why when I click on a link in an email in Netscape:
> a. The browser comes up but doesn't try to connect
> b. I click again and not always but most of the time it says could
> not connect
> c. Click yet again and it finally decides to connect
Here's the problem: Netscape only retrys for about 30 seconds to
contact nameservers before it gives up. It takes at least 35 seconds
for diald to connect you. That timeout is dictated by the Linux
bind libraries. It is not Netscape's doing. You could recompile
glibc :-) but here is an easier way that works fine:
Here's the solution: duplicate the nameserver line in /etc/resolv.conf
so you have it there two or three times. Here is mine, yours will differ:
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search netcom.ca
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 127.0.0.1
This will make any program retry longer, so diald will have time
to bring up the link.
>
>
> 2) Is there a better X windows email client that does PPP?
> a. I tried exmh but it didn't seem to have an address book
Netscape Communicator 4.5 is the nicest I've seen, and it works
as well as the Linux bind system will let it.
>
>
> 3) I have installed diald. When I start up Netscape it seems to generate net
> work traffic
> to fire diald up. Can I work completely offline with Netscape Mail?
Yes: there are
1. Use Edit | Preferences | Navigator
to set your home page to "blank page",
file:/usr/doc/HTML/index.html or file: /home/jon.
2. Use Edit | Prefs | Mail Servers | <YourIncomingSrvr> | Edit
to turn OFF "Check for mail every X minutes". Keeps the link
from coming up to get new mail periodically.
3. Use Edit | Preferences | Advanced to turn OFF
"Automatically Load Images". This keeps from going up
when you view HTML email messages.
4. When you are online,
press "Send Unsent Messages" in the file menu
and "Get Messages" in the toolbar.
>
>
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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