gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:14:46 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Star Office Mail help needed


On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:34:08PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> Thanks all who helped with this.  I'm disappointed that Sun decided to drop 
> the mail client rather than fixing it.  I liked the way that SO 5.2 saved 
> messages.  They were plain text (or HTML), so you could view them anywhere, 
> but when opened in SO, displayed (and functioned) like mail 
> messages.  Rather than using folders, you could store them as documents 
> with related business documents.

This is called Maildir format (as opposed to mbox format) and many
mailers (both GUI and not) support it.

> My version of KMail doesn't support HTML (which I get a fair amount of), 
> and the newer version won't run in my version of KDE.  I guess I have to 
> finish installing that hard drive and update my distro (which I have put 
> off for 2 months now.)<g>

Can't help you there. (GUI for mail feels like useless overhead to
me.)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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