On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 Jorge Rieznik wrote about Netmail Pro: --------------------quote:-------------- Advantages: 1 - Easy to setup and run. 2 - You only have to configure netmail.ini file. 3 - It's very fast and reliable. You'll also need a text editor to write (and read) emails. Disadvantages: 1 - Incoming mails are numbered as mailxxxx.in in increasing order. Xxxx is a hexadecimal order, so you can't have a list of subject titles of incoming mails, unless you do it manually with a text editor. 2 - Outgoing mails a stored in a file called ccmail.out, so again, you can't have a subject title database. -------------------unquote.------------- Some small additions and revisions to that: Netmail Pro is a sheer get/send mail prog - very easy to set up indeed, and very small and fast too - and there's the advantage too that you can use it as easy for just one of the two tasks individually too. It stores incoming mail as single files per message, with a running number (MAILxxxx.IN), and it needs single files created per msg. likewise for outgoing (MAILxxxx.OUT). The copies of the mails sent off ar stored in a folder-type file then (CCMAIL.OUT) - which is a little bit inconsistent: there are a number of offline mail progs that can handle either the folder- or mailbag-type files (the mailer in Netscrape is such), *or* the single-file-per-msg. format (most of the Window$ mailers clatter your disks like that), but not both. AFAIK my own "ReRead" is (still) the only one that does both. (In fact I first began with it as an alternative to Nettamer's Reader, and then found it quite practical to add and use the handling off those singel-files-per-msg. when I just want to upload some mail fast). In any case it would be rather cumbersome to handle mail with an editor only. You need some additional offline mail handling program (where you would hook in your preferred editor). Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-04-20 HomePage of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
