On Friday 02 February 2001 05:26 pm, regarding Re: [newbie]
Emergency...solved, you said:
> Hey,
>
> > I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ;>
> >
> > > BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am
> > > all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only
> > > in the kmail body, not any of the headers.
>
> While I can't address your bios thing, this bit is something
> I'd dealt with often in kmail. A little history: For years,
> when using shell accounts I'd got to know pine pretty well &
> liked it. When I'd had done with Windows as any more than a
> gaming platform & installed RedHat 6.0 (I'd been using RH 5.0 for
> a while on two boxes as a secondary OS), I used pine. But RedHat
> does some odd things sometimes & I suddenly couldn't get pine to
> read the mail headers any longer (pine takes mail in whatever
> folder & reformats the headers for its own purposes -- except it
> was no longer able to do that no matter what I'd done).
>
> In any case, I'd turned to kmail, as I have more than one mail
> account on more than one mail server. Well, the kmail which is
> with kde 1.0 (or is that 1.1?) really had some problems -- fonts
> only one of them. I'd even upgraded to kde 1.2 & tried kmail
> there. Everything was going OK but occasionally would wind up
> with huge fonts. I finally got fed up with the little problems
> when any e-mail with pgp signatures would lock up X.
>
> I've not bothered since installing lm7.2 trying kmail since
> pine is doing fine. But I really have no desire to deal with it
> any longer anyway.
>
> Meph
I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been
wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user
friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric.
Do you know of a good howto on it?
--
-michael-
