Really quick....try mozilla, maybe sylpheed for mail


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:29:41 -0500
Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Now I'm really getting irritated with NS...  looks like 4.79 did something to
> some of my mail files so that now 4.78 is also crashing a lot...  The "fix" each
> time is to delete the .<box>.summary file which forces NS to recreate it.  
> 
> I'm becoming convinced (gut feel) that NS does not lock the mail files properly
> so that incoming mail, deletes and other(?) box activities are not done to
> completion, then an interrupted task resumes with assumed pointers.  Just a
> guess; but it sure smells like that to me.
> 
> Pierre
> 
> Nick Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > And I though 4.78 was flakey. I'm trying to use mozilla now, but its
> > sooo sloooow :-( . Does anybody know when Moz 0.9.6 is due - I thought
> > it was supposed to be last friday. Konqy is pretty good and fast, but it
> > still chokes on too many pages and java never seems to work for me.
> > Maybe I'll have to give Opera a spin. This won't help me for e-mail though.
> > 
> > Nick.
> > 
> > Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > 
> > >I've being *trying* to use NS4.79; but have just reverted back to 4.78.
> > >
> > >NS4.79 is the worst release I've seen to date...  it crashes constantly.  It
> > >messes up your mail *.summary files and if bad enough, any attempt to run NS4.79
> > >will crash before displaying the first window; the only way to find the problem
> > >is to strace it and correct/delete the file it's croaking on...
> > >
> > 
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