Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:48:32 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apology for multiple posts (Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition) Message-ID: <369A63A0.48A436BE@uk.radan.com> References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> <3697C1E1.89AA2277@uk.radan.com> <19990111123426.19377.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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Greg Black wrote: > > > Sorry for the multiple posts of my last message. > > It's generally a sound idea to find out *what* has happened, > especially with email, rather than blindly repeating a command > which has the capability to annoy a lot of people. > I dial into our LAN at work and my mail goes via our mail server. Unfortunately I've been having connection problems here since u/g my modem firmware to v90 (now fixed thanks to a further u/g) so I put the problem down to that and just kept re-trying. > > Netscape kept saying it had a problem and couldn't deliver the message. > > I kept trying to re-send it. Turns out it had sent it but for some > > reason couldn't copy it to my Sent folder. > > Yet more evidence for my claim that Netscape is the ideal > vehicle for the "how not to write software" class. > Well yes, several people recommended "real" mail programs. Alas out of necessity my machine has to run 95/NT4/FBSD (not got room for 2 computers :-( ) so I use Netscape Communicator 4.5 under all 3 as I can use single mailbox between 95 & NT but the FreeBSD version, whilst it can read and write to it, seems have some differences which cause it to do strange things. What I'd actually done was compose the replies in FreeBSD but forgot to send them and then sent them whilst in 95. Sigh..one day either the kids'll leave home or I'll get a bigger house and have room for 2 computers :-) Once again, sorry for the inconvenience. > There are real mail programs out there -- why not use one of > them? > > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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