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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 10:44:39AM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:40:41 -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 09:52:23AM +1300,
> > 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> >> Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> > I think that is a _very_ buggy utility.
>
> > Which explains why there is a long thread about its source
> > code in the archives. And why no one seems to use it.
>
> > Thanks. I think I better look for another solution. What do
> > others use? Sylpheed?

If I must...

>
>    In Linux: yes.
>
> > I'd prefer a non-X app for mail For anything, actually      .
>
>    In DOS, I use mainly Arachne, but occasionally BareBones
>    email.

Thanks, Ron.

DOS has a lot of interesting apps. Seems like someone would have
created an app that ports them to linux/unix.

I'll check out Timo Salmi's site. I think he's into DOS big time.

I checked out elm. It's an MUA. No SMTP capabilities. On SW4.0
it relies on sendmail for that, and I'm not installing that
monster.

It may be that I'll need to do some serious work on my SMTP
script. 

Msmtp is really nice, but it needs libc6 and two libs, libgsasl7
and libssl0.9.7, that also need libc6. I don't have the knowhow
to make it work under libc5.

I wonder at what point installing libc6 might prove more
space efficient than using a lot of X-apps, which are usually
very large....

$ wget --spider 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/sylpheed.tgz
--16:10:54--  
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/sylpheed.tgz
           => `sylpheed.tgz'
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... done.
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.46.7.109]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 831,645 [application/x-tar]
200 OK

Even gzipped, sylpheed is the better part of a MB.


Lee

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