[H-GEN] Sucky mail clients (was: Mail problems... SOLVED !! (maybe))

[Hilton Travis]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Hilton Travis" <QuarkComputers at email.com>)

Hi Steve,

> Hilton Travis wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a mail client that works well under Windows AND
> > Linux?  This would allow on office using both Windope and Linux
> > clients to use the same email prog - that would make it easier to
> > change people over to Linux!
>
> I'm using Netscape Communicator Pro 4.6 on SGI irix - no major probs
> here. Same on some other PC clients - no headaches - but the pc
> clients aren't serious users.
> I am guessing here, but i could only imagine the linux version of
> Communicator would be further ahead than the irix version.
>
> But Netscape may not be everyone's go, however it does its job quite
> well - 4 me anyway.

Well, **silly me**.  I use Netscape (well, used until recently) for News
here, and Lookout 2000 for news/contacts/schedule/all else.  This is because
the Outlook Express news client SUX - do a system reinstall (yes, Win98) and
you need to re-subscribe to all the newsgroups again - not with Netscape
tho!  Why didn't I think of Netscape?  (Brain fade on Friday?)

However, I recently did a fresh install with MS Windows 98 SE and had a few
problems.  First, the current Creative PCI64 drivers (4.05.1051) are broken
under Win98 SE - they system does two (that's "2" - folks) detection
phases - finds it all the first time, then does it again anyway - if these
drivers (or the earlier 4.05.1050 drivers) are loaded.  Watch out for
this...

Also, under Win98 SE, I have found that both Netscape 4.51 and Netscape 4.6
are as unstable as all hell, and crash as soon as you try to change the
default mail format from html to plain text.  Also, they both crash almost
every time they are run, and again almost every time they are closed down.
The exact same files installed on a fresh Win98 (original) system work
perfectly.  Watch out for this too...

I believe Netscape Communicator is available with scheduling support.  Has
anyone used this?  I have not had the chance to play with it.  Is it any
good, no good, what?

Have you tried running multiple browser windows?  Does it work now?  I
noticed this was broken before (think it was Netscape 4.51, may be wrong
here).

> I haven't had the chance to fiddle with other unix mail clients - it's
> a b_tch having to actually do PROPER work during office hours.

:-)

Regards,
Hilton


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