To Mark Weaver:
Once upon a time Mark, you suggested to someone that they use Pronto for their
email. That generated a line on my 'Linux to do' list and this weekend I got
around to it. Thanks for that recommendation.
I used the ProntoInstaller and excepting that I had to edit the Perl script to
keep it from hunting for a newer version of the HTMLparser (couldn't seem to
find on in its web archive) the installation was really slick. From what I can
see, the program is equally so.
One of the best things is the use of a simple text file for the addressbook as
I could script my way to getting my addresses into the proper format...or so I
thought. I quickly created an addressbook that looked identical to the one
created by Pronto but it simply didn't "see" any of the addresses in it. Ran
around chasing my tail for a while and ultimately stuffed the Pronto
addressbook and the one I made into a hex editor. Lo and behold, the Pronto
folks are showing off some DOS/Windows roots as their addressbook requires a
CR/LF at the end of each line rather than the standard UNIX LF-only format.
Once that was solved I was off to the races.
Also installed Pan as a news reader and it looks pretty good. I noticed it
after installing 7.2 on my other machine to look at Koffice (needs much work to
replace Star Office I'm afraid).
Cheers --- Larry
