Hi all,

this is an appeal for some advice - first up, I want an Email program for
Linux. Sound simple? Lets make it a bit more complex....it's got to be MIME
compliant. Problem is, I've tried Spruce, Cronos][, Evolution and Pygmy and
none of them can cope with attachments produced by mailto (part of the
metamail *reference* MIME package). 

Problem seems to be that they are all looking for a name for the
attachments which metamail doesn't provide. Here's a wee bash script I use
for sending out files (e.g. `sendfile data.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]`) to save
you having to learn how to use mailto....

#!/bin/bash

echo  $1 "\\n~*\\n0\\n"$1"\\n~." >automail.in ; \
mailto $2 <automail.in ; \
rm -f automail.in

(I know its not the greatest program ever written). 

....or am I doing something stupid.

Next question: I have been donated a 2Mb 386 laptop. I can get it talking
to my Linux boxes over serial connection using a DOS terminal emulator, and
can even get it to talk ppp. Unfortunately I can't get it to run arachne (a
DOS web browser - not enough memory). Also running ppp as a DOS TSR is very
lumpy. I did try to track down a copy of GeoWorks (an alternative GUI
written for 286/386 DOS boxes) but it currently is not available. Anybody
any better suggestions? 

Colin

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