Kraski Web Services
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:09:17 -0700
> No, you are completely right, and such ideas are welcome. In fact, I did > just that recently: > > <http://www.beonex.org/newbiebrowser/> > (The url and name is of course temporary) > > All, please tell me what you think of it, judging from the screenshots. > (I have only Linux binaries and didn't upload them yet.) I like it! I take it, from the page name that this will be browser only. And that's probably the one area I can handle easily with Mozilla & Beonex. My big problem is mailnews. When it works, it's perfect. When it doesn't, well.... After a bunch of nightlies, I settled on Moz 1.0 final, then Beonex .8 stable, then Moz 1.1 final. I have 3 email accounts (2 on the same server -- my domain), plus 4 news servers that I access, including the secure netscape server for several of the moz user newsgroups. In every case, after some period of time, my mail/news settings would "go south" with no necessarily visible problem with the user prefs (of course, I'm not a Linux user, so I probably missed something). The "best" result of this is my most recent, with moz 1.1, where I can now recieve from 2 of the 3 email accounts, but not send, & can still send & recieve news on all accounts. In the other cases, everything died. This is on a Win98SE box, with LiteStep as my GUI, running a firewall, proxy, AV & AT software. And the last instance, I had picked up mail, checked a few NGs & gone to bed -- when I got up, what worked prior no longer did. So, my preference would be somebody fixing MailNews. There are far too many user pref lines to sort through to try to figure out how to fix problems manually. Bill Kraski