For many years I've used the Yarn offline news/mail reader for dos, with
mixed feelings. I seldom download newsgroups, and prefer to browse them
online, since I have a shell account. I dont like downloading megs of messages just to
look at the headers of most of them.
What I dislike about yarn is that its modified SOUP format makes the files
that hold messages quite fragile: It starts each message with hex digits that
specify the message's byte length, and includes a # of lines field in the header.
Thus if a few bytes in the file get messed up, you have a corrupt file from
Yarns view. Also, there are millions of hard to remember utilities to fix little
or big things that go wrong in yarn.
I am almost content using Jeroem Schipper's readmail version 5 beta to read
mail offline in dos and send replies. However, it is a discontinued program
with some bugs in its message setup, very little information about how to
define message headers in its later versions, and the author pretty much
wants to have done with the thing and not answer correspondence.
Sooo -- anyone out there like any other dos offline mail readers and/or
reply senders? I've recently tried newswerthy, rcently made freeware, and
found it quite buggy.
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