John -
It sounds to me like KMail should fit your needs as far as a mail reader is
concerned.
- Av -
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Abraham P. (Av) Pinzur
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> John Rye
> Sent: Wednesday, 06 December, 2000 07:29
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Tripwire documentation???
>
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > O my...it's looking like I'm going to have to decypher the man pages on
> > this one. Crap! it's going to be a long weekend with a headache again.
> >
> > but thanks John for the reply. And by the way...I've been wondering
> > about this...how come so many re-installs?
>
> Mostly - it's called - 'Oh darn it - that's fuxed it!!
>
> I get myself into a position from which I can't recover and due to
> our wide time differences it's easier to re-install and recover from
> backups, normally around 1 to 2 hours.
>
> It's hell waiting for the rest of the world to wake up, this usually
> happens during my evening when all you guys in Gore County are wide
> asleep!! (Big silly grin!!).
>
> I have to admit that I genuinely believe that I'm winning this battle
> as it it's Thursday AM right now and the last re-install was on 24th
> November. Overall I'm pleased with what I'm learning here without
> hassling with trying to keep up with the Jones's as far as distribution
> levels go.
>
> At this point I'm about ready to start planing a shift of mailing
> systems
> away from Netscape. It serves well but I haven't yet found a way to get
> Netscape to pick up all mail from all email accounts in one fell swoop -
> I have 5 accounts which I monitor!!
>
> When I used windows I had a bunch of batch files which switched the Ns
> preferences on the fly, but so far haven't sorted my thoughts on how
> to do it with Linux - I assume that I have to do some messing about
> with fetchmail, sendmail, postfix. But I have a fair bit of reading
> to do yet.
>
> It's coming - but any and all suggestions are welcome with the proviso
> that my preference is toward a GUI mailing proggy with threading. The
> reason for this quite simple - my vision is failing and it's easier to
> mess with fonts and colours in the GUI's.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
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> "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
> (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
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