On Sep 26, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Sheafe EWING wrote:
Hangers-0n and remaining Lurkers attention:
You recall how, over the years, we've exchanged our thoughts about
wanting Emailer to "somehow" be made to reappear, enabled to run in
later editions of the Mac OS.
And,yes, some have, and can, run Emailer under Classic.
But with the Intel chips Mac, Apple no longer supports Classic.
I beat all these articles that come out on the topic by about 2
years. I reported this was possible back in about March of 2006 not
long after I got my Intel iMac.
In fact, I put up the files needed to do it on my web site and told
people on the Emailer list where to get them. It includes a 500 MB
disk image with Emailer pre-loaded.
I also reported the major gotcha in doing it... PITA integration with
the host OS. If you get an attachment, you need to be sure your
downloads to go a shared folder. Not too bad. But if you want to send
an attachment, you need to copy it to the same shared folder so OS 9
can see it. No drag and drop into email for files (and at the time,
none for text as well, my guess is that is still true). Want to click
a link in an email, better have an OS 9 web browser in that
SheepShaver instance, because it can't pass the GURL event out to OS
X. That means don't plan to receive links to any current modern "fun"
web pages, because none of the OS 9 browsers handle them very well.
Want to tie in to OS X iApps like iPhoto, not going to happen,
because you can't pass the AppleEvents into SheepShaver's OS 9.
All in all, it is very doable, but seriously, how much jumping thru
hoops are people willing to keep doing to continue to use Emailer? I
was a serious die hard Emailer user, and I even found that it was
just getting to be too much effort to keep using it and I was giving
up too much modern experience. And for what? An interface you are
used to? The ability to not display HTML emails at all? (which, BTW,
any good browser will render only the embedded HTML and will NOT
follow external links without permission, thus until there are
exploits for OS X, there is no danger to viewing HTML email, not even
spam).
I never thought I would say this, but here goes. Folks... it is one
thing to keep using Emailer when you are on OS 6-9, but for anyone
that is running OS X, and anyone that is running an Intel iMac or
10.5... really... move on already. Take the week it will take to
learn a modern email client and realize all the headaches you are
causing yourself by refusing to move on.
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