[99714] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Netscape Mail and Communicator and Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD\(HA\)/TM)
Mon Nov 16 17:32:00 1998
From: "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD\(HA\)/TMA" <Jon.Himebaugh@tma.osd.mil>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:21:44 -0500
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I REALLY appreciate the information. I cannot wait to get home and try some
of it out.
Only one problem.
Item 1 happens after I have retrieved email and am reading it. If I fire up
the browser manually instead of from a link in an email everything works
fine. I believe that the entire link of PPP and TCP/IP is up and running.
Once again thanks for the information. I will go home and try it tonight.
Jon Himebaugh
jon.himebaugh@tma.osd.mil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Carlson [SMTP:janc@iname.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 12:10 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Netscape Mail and Communicator and Questions
>
> "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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