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[jamtat AT mailsnare.net]

Quoting qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org:
> 
> Unless Sahara (konq/e) turns out to be viable, it is looking 
> more and more like links2 for 486/586 and Mozilla for better 
> hardware.  I still haven't tried the latest Opera and it's 
> possible we could see a better version of dillo sometime, so 
> don't give up on those yet.  
> 
Sorry for dropping the ball a bit on the browser front.  I had a bad spell 
with my BL partitions, as I mentioned.  I don't really have any reservations 
about whether Links2 is the right graphical browser for BL on a 486: it gets 
my unqualified support.  Dillo would certainly perform better (faster), but 
it 
won't do many things that Links2 will.  I do have more testing/browsing to do 
with it, but to date it is a huge improvement performance-wise over any of 
the 
other graphical browsers (Opera, BrowseX) I've tried on this 486.  The Mac 
Konqueror adaptation is called "Safari," not Sahara, btw.

It seems I've found a way to make Pine 4.21 download (and delete, I presume) 
all messages from a POP server.  Thus, it can sort of act as its own MRA 
(mail 
retrieval agent), not necessarily needing another program like fetchmail for 
this.  The way this works, to describe it briefly, is that Pine checks the 
POP 
server and displays a list of message headers.  By pressing a series of keys 
(4 keys), one can save the entire list of message contents to a local folder. 
 
Though I have yet to confirm this (I'm not at that machine at the moment and 
won't have access to it for a couple of days) the messages are marked for 
deletion from the server after they're saved locally.  Thus, Pine essentially 
acts as both an MRA and an MUA (mail user agent) in this scheme.  If this 
seems helpful and others are interested, I can later post a more detailed 
description of how to set this up and how it works.