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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] mailto/sendmail
  • Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:53:25 -0400 (EDT)

Steven wrote a script 'mailto' for BL3 (which I think puts mail to be sent
to a web link into the outbox for later sending). Is there any reason not
to add the line
pmail -o
which would send the mail immediately?

Also:
1. BL2 also uses pmail. Is the same script likely to work there with
links or would it needed modification? In Bl2 pmail -o does not send
mail, you need to write pmail -o ~/mail/outbox in order to send.
2. I tried copying the mailto script to /usr/sbin/sendmail, which is what
lynx looks for when sending mail. But lynx uses some other system and I
got a line full of ?????? and a 1:0001 that rapidly increased to the
thousands at lower right, and I could not exit but had to reboot. What
would I need to modify to use mailto as sendmail in lynx?

Sending mail with lynx lets you include the webpage you were looking at
and I don't know of a way to do that with links. Also you can send to
some URL other than the link in a page by typing mailto: in lynx.
Assuming you have a working mailto. (I have not tried doing a mailto
with Steven's sendmail.)

If Steven's mailto cannot be adapted to work with lynx, what other easy
way of doing this would people suggest?

Apart from not being able to send mail with lynx, or use mousekeys, I can
now do just about everything in linux that I could do in DOS other than
run DOS programs (which would require learning dosemu). There don't seem
to be any text-mode linux wordprocessors like there are for DOS.

Some things work a lot better, such as internet. I can view ps files at
higher resolution in linux than in DOS on most video cards.

I have not found a small mail program that automatically does base64
encoding/decoding of attachments, or a small simple database program like
the 33K one I use in DOS. Any suggestions for either?

One thing I have not tried to do is destroy a TTL monitor by loading vga
fonts while in mono mode, which I did in DOS. If I am set up with mdacon,
which lets me switch between VGA and TTL monitors, and I load a VGA font,
or use resizecons to change the number of columns in all my consoles, is
this likely to damage the TTL monitor, or are mda consoles not affected by
switching VGA settings?

I accidentally loaded a Thai font once while in DOS, on a 2-monitor
system, while using the mono monitor (TTL), and the monitor screamed and
stopped working. (A $2 part fixed it).

I have saved a dying TTL monitor to experiment on if necessary. We are
down to our last 8 TTLs now after losing two.





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