A step backwards - and now a bit annoyed

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, sda wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:43:10AM -0400, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote inter alia:
> > > 
> > >    Mozilla 1.0 mail is balky, and my wife can't stand it.  I'm running
> > >    fetchmail because Moz couldn't talk POP to the ISP (though that was
> > >    originally working with Netscape).  Then I have MOZ using imap to
> > >    get at /var/spool/mail/<her> because MOZ doesn't seem to have a
> > >    Movemail.  But after reading a single email, it goes haywire and
> > >    needs MOZ to be shut down and restarted or else all attempts to
> > >    deal with mail get wedged forever.  I can't find anything useful
> > >    in /var/log/messages or /var/log/mail.
> > > 
> > >    My wife is fed up.  She says it used to be fun, and this is no fun
> > >    at all.
> > > 
> > Download or purchase the CD's for Netscape 4.79 and NS 6.2.x or 7.0.
> > I have both installed on eDesk 2.4 (and Libranet 2).  I use NS 4.79
> > mainly, and 6.2.2 to handle the websites that only work with IE.  I
> > can't stand NS 6.2's mail handling, so I use 4.79 for that purpose. 
> > There is no problem having both apps open at the same time.
> 
> You do realize of course that your Netscape is quite outdated? There
> have been many improvements since NN6.2. The latest is NN7.x and
> personally I'd give Mozilla 1.2 a good tryout. You may just be surprised
> at how good it's mail client is. Quite hackable as well, if you feel
> comfortable with javascript and CSS.

I've received quite a bit of response to this thread, which which would
be pleasing if any of it were of the slightest use to me.  The one thing
I did try was downloading Netscape 7 and trying that.  The behavior is
identical.

I do agree with the one reply which indicated it looked more like an
application problem than a distro problem per se, so I'm not going to
replace the distro, I'm going to ditch it.  Many of the rest of the
replies seemed more intent on pushing a favorite distro than paying any
attention to the actual problem.

To repeat:  Netscape (including 7) cannot fetch my wife's mail from
the ISP (Pac Bell); fetchmail can, and that gets the mail into Netscape's
Inbox.  But she cannot then move the mail to any of her local folders --
it just keeps trying forever.  She wants to go back to using netscape
the way she did on Windows, and it looks like the only way to do that
is to actually run Windows.

I'm out of time or patience for dinking with this any more.  I'll be
too busy gritting my teeth and installing Windoze.  At least I know what
to expect.  Grrrrrrrrrr.

++ kevin


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