On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> In article <018201c0ebb1$fcb06010$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >Malcolm Cadman writes:
> >
> >>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. <--------- ?!
> >>
> >>------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C0EB87.03E18EC0
> >>Content-Type: text/plain;
> > >charset="Windows-1252" <----------- ?!
> >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>Testing Outlook Express v5.5 - this should be in plain text, as I
> >>have configured the settings.
> ><BIG snip!>
> >
> >Oh boy did somebody screw up! Im sure the spike's gonna get you now ;)
>
> Yes:-( it still sent two copies ...
I see it is next to impossible to get Outlook do what you need.
There is a better solution - use plain SMTP. All you need to know
is the smarthost of your ISP - you have entered that in your dialup
configuration, open a telnet client to this smarthost, port 25 then
type "help" (without quotes). Do not forget to enter "Subject:", "To:"
and other optional header lines after the DATA command and leave a blank
line between them and message body. A full SMTP session is like typing:
MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DATA
header lines (add at least To:,Subject:,From:)
body
.
QUIT
You don't need Outlook for reading your mail either, just open
a telnet session to your pop server (very often the same as the
SMTP smarthost), port 110 - and
USER yourlogin
PASS password
LIST
RETR 1
RETR 2
... after you are done reading
DELE 1
...
QUIT
I am sure if you spend 10 minutes with it you will love the
simplicity, reliability and portability of this approach.
It is also *dead easy* to write a simple SuperBasic program
that does all this from UQLX, I am sure your first attempt
will compare favourably with the average MUA bloatware.
Jonathan Hudson already wrote a nice simple mail client for
UQLX so you may use it as an example.
Bye
Richard
