On Sun, 04 Apr 1999, Marcel Broekman wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Apr 1999, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > Rachel
> >
> > >It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This
> > >is 4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable
> > >piece of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to
> > >use Outlook out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a
> > >perfectly good email client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever
> > >stopped using it.
> > >
> >
> > I'm sorry to hear about your own problems just now. I've
> > worked with Windows and Macs for years. It's very hard when you
> > start with a new OS and or computer. Things do go wrong.
> >
> > >The only good thing I can say is that, being that it's running on
> > >Linux, Netscape can't do any more harm than crash itself. > >HEY!
> > LINUX HAS NO DECENT EMAIL CLIENT! And yes, I've bloody tried >them
> > all. They have at least one of: An unusable user interface >(Pine),
> > lacking in core functionality (KMail), Horribly unreliable
> > >(Netscape), or can't even get it to work at all (Most others). >
> >
> >
> > I've got one going at the moment where Kmail works fine until I
> > install XF Mail. Then Kmail stops working and XF Mail won't do
> > anything either. Any help from Ted Harding would be appreciated with
> > this one. I thought about sending a bug report to Gennady about it.
> >
> > There would have been a time when going back to MS Windows
> > would have been a good option for me. However, I've worked in
> > internet tech support and that put me off windows quite a bit. All
> > those people threatening me over the phone because their machines
> > didn't work put me off it. The OS invites death threats and
> > violence.
> >
> > At least with linux I get to meet nice people who have a different
> > view of the world ? One of my other problems is the growing pile of
> > scrap which has been generated by the testing of new windows
> > software. Broken boards, HDs etc are not something that I welcome.
> >
> > I hope that you can get things to work for you eventually :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard
> > Sheffield UK
> > Home of the
> > Trans-European
> > rain cloud
> >
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> Hi Richard,
>
> Kmail stores its messages in files that have the same names as the
> directories of the mailboxes of XFmail. If you want Kmail & XFmail to
> peacefully coexist you have to create a subdirectory for XFmail in your
> /home/username/Mail directory: something like
> /home/username/Mail/xfmail. Next configure XFmail to place its
> mailboxes in this directory. To get Kmail working again: delete all
> files & directories
IN YOUR /home/username/Mail directory that is. (sorry)
(accept the newly created xfmail dir) and fire up
> Kmail.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Marcel.
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