On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:26:43 +0200 "Olli J. Marttila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OJM> I have been looking for a cross platform mail/news client
OJM> that could be used both on Win2000 and on Linux platforms.
OJM> Mahogany seems to be an ideal tool for that purpose BUT I do
OJM> not understad how it should be configured as a news client.
Hello,
unfortunately I have bad news for you -- Mahogany is not really usable as
a news client right now. It *can* be used to read news but honestly it's
not very good at it simply because too many features of a decent newsreader
are lacking.
OJM> However, whatever I have tried with Mahogany 0.64 for
OJM> Win32, the result is always the same: Suppose that I try to
OJM> open newsgroup sfnet.atk.tex. I create it, but while trying
OJM> to open it the following message appears:
OJM>
OJM> Mail.log: can't open mailbox
OJM> {news.kolumbus.fi/anonymous/nntp}sfnet.atk.tex}. invalid
OJM> remote specification.
This looks like a bug -- there is an extra '}' in the folder spec. Using
"/anonymous" for NNTP is wrong as well and I've just fixed it in the
sources -- after this change I was able to open a newsgroup on my NNTP
server without any problems.
OJM> The situation is not better if I give my login string and
OJM> password. For reasons I cannot understad a new message is
OJM> displayed:
OJM>
OJM> SMTP error: 553koti-z5twiwtcza.kolumbus.fi does not
OJM> exist,
Stranger and stranger... Could you please explain what exactly are you
doing?
OJM> and every time I try to create a new folder, my e-mail
OJM> address is changed into Olli J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I
OJM> hate it!
Sorry, I'm completely lost by now. Where is it changed? Does this have
anything to do with NNTP or not?
Anyhow, you should really try the latest Win32 snapshot instead of .64
(there were many changes for the better since then) but, as I said, you
still won't be able to use it to read news comfortably. For reading mail it
works very well IMHO however.
Regards,
VZ
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