To keep the record straight, Pine is a dos program. It was a good program
in its day. Perhaps Linex may come up with something similar, but it has a
different way of taking care of things. I'd recommend you try the keymail
program for yourself before making judgement on it. It may not have all
the frills of what you are use to but it does a respectable job. Give it a
try!
If you are reading an Email, you can reply to it right then and there or
you can save it to your own individual folder which you create to act on
later. The best way to save Email you wish to keep is to save it to a file
which can be done while you are in an Email message. You then can place
that file on any drive you care to as a CF or SD card, thumb drive etc. Of
course, any such files can be moved to your PC. If you wish to pass on
that file you saved, simply paste it in the text of another Email. If you
are writing an Email and you are interrupted, you can place it in the
drafts folder to act on at a more convenient time. Quite often I'm writing
something and I need to check on or look up some information. I can do so
and go back to my piece of Email which I placed in the drafts folder and
continue writing where I left off till I'm ready to send Email. One may
act upon multiple Emails at once thanks to the Email Action Menu. I often
leave my Email on the server so I can download it on my PC later. If I
have 200 Emails in my in box and I have read all of them, I cqan go into
the Email action menu (spacebar with dots 2 6) on a BT keyboard and type
the letter A to mark all! I then can move all of them easily to the trash
where they are deleted. I believe one can mark one or more Email messages
for a specific action if one doesn't wish to act on all messages.
As they say life goes on. When I get a new computer, I'll need to learn
outlook express instead of using Eudora as I do now on my PC. That's the
way it goes sometimes! One must change how things are done once one
changes PCS, notetakers etc. That's life. I'm not asking any of you to
like Keymail but I think if you become proficient with it, you will find it
really can come in handy at times. It is nice to sit back on my couch, lie
in bed or go outside and send and receive Email. If I wish, I can listen
to music in the background, my choice! Just give it a try! Don't rely
totally on what you read on this list, try it yourself and really make up
your own mind for yourself!
Jim Aldrich
At 01:12 PM 11/15/2005 , you wrote:
Hi Terri;
Does this mean you have to read a block of messages, stop incoming mail
and then respond to those you want or save or delete them. You mean you
cann't proform any tasks while in the e-mail. Sounds like it is easier
on the computer. Maybe I will not need internet coverage.
As you can see, I have never done e-mail.
Can I highlite a block of e-mails, put them on a cf card and read them on
the BT?
I don't know if it would put a bunch in one file. I guess you could
delete an e-mail, line by line or block it.
Let me know what you think.
I am trying to braille BT commands I want to save and delete junk e-mails.
terry Powers
-----Original Message-----
From: Terri Pannett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Braillenote] differences between Keymail, OE and Pine
Dear List,
Although Keymail has improved breatly, there are 6 things which bother me.
First, email programs like OE and Pine allow you to stay online and send a
message immediately after writing it. But as long as you are reading email,
Keymail won't do this.
Second, OE and Pine will allow you to view the body of an attachment when
you open it. Keymail shows all this return-path and other header stuff and
you must wade through it before you can read the body of the attachment.
This is true when you detach and save the attachment to open and read it
later.
Third, there is far too much duplication with Keymail. If I move an email
to another folder, it's saved in 3 folders. OE and Pine only save messages
to one folder. Since email hogs database space, it seems stupid for Keymail
to have all this duplication.
Fourth, both OE and Pine will allow you to press enter on a link in an email
and IE or Lynx will open automatically and bring up the URL. Keymail should
really have this feature, too. When we press enter on a URL, Keyweb should
automatically open and bring up the web site.
I miss the days when Keyterm was a part of Keysoft and I could use Pine
instead of Keymail. Although Keymail has greatly improved, I still think
I'd rather use Pine with my BN than Keymail.
Fifth, Keymail always shows the subject in computer braille, but if I use my
PC and WindowEyes, I can read it in grade 2 braille and I can read the
subject line in grade 2 braille using my old DOS PC, too. I can understand
why most of the header is in computer braille, but why can't Keysoft be
changed so the subject line can be read in grade 2 braille?
Sixth, Keymail can only do one thing at a time. Bot OE and Pine allow you
to read, write and receive/send email without needing to close and open
tasks through a menu.
Keymail is good for occasional use, but I will probably use my PC's for
email.
Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
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