On 15 Jul 01 at 18:31, arachne-digest wrote: >Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:39:38 +0200 >From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Ragnebrink?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Questions >2) How do i use an external mail editor to compose an outgoing >message? Cannot find any info on this.. Hi Bjorn, there are basically two ways to do this: a) External editor If you just like to use a different editor to write your messages you may want to replace Arachne's internal editor with another one that is quicker or more convenient. This would not consider only composing of mail, but any editing task that turns up (cf. key F4). For older versions of Arachne, there is an add-on (APM) on the download page. But I think the 1.70 has an even more simple way of selecting an external editor. At the very end of Options-Preferences page there is a space to fill in an editor's name. I have never tried this, but it would be interesting to know whether it works. As you use national characters, I would like to add one remark: Even if Arachne's internal editor seems to be slow and simple it offers a fantastic support of any font set and any keyboard definition. This is why I (writing mainly Czech and German) have not replaced Arachne's editor, but I am just switching between several ones. b) using a mail client together with Arachne As e-mail mainly concerns text, it may be useful for someone to use still another program for composing, reading, sorting and archiving of email offline. Arachne does a great good job online. She is very versatile in sending and receiving messages with different e- mail accounts. And she is able to display the messages with embedded links so that you can "click" on them and get right at the linked webpages. Other features of Arachne's email components have often be criticised and may appear insufficient to those who have a lot of email traffic, mailing lists etc. In this case you may consider to use a better program together with Arachne. The critical point is that it produces outgoing mail in files with extension .TBS and reads incoming mail with extension .CNM. I have been using Pegasus Mail for DOS (PMmail) for quite a while together with Arachne. I can start PMail from inside Arachne or independently to read and compose, then I use Arachne online to send, receive and preview incoming mail. If you are interested in how to set this up, ask me by private mail. I shall give you the details. Regards Christof Lange ________________________________________________________________ Ceskobratrska cirkev evangelicka - Betlemska kaple na Zizkove Prokopova 4/216, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic Tel. (00420-2) 22 78 06 73 / 22 78 20 02 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
