Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I was concentrating on
>standalone, freeware programs that could be used with a separate offline
>mail program.
As you can see there is no shortage of such programs. We all have
our favourites.
>Why this concentration? Im just not finding the combination of features
>and reliability I want in one or more dos mailing programs. In particular,
>Readmail is the only program I know that will undigest a mail digest on
>the fly and will read multiple (even user defined) mail header formats
>and convert them (if you want) to other user selected formats. I find this
>EXTREMELY convenient for reading big digests.
I also use Readmail to read digests and some other formats. It is
extremely versatile.
>But Readmail is buggy
>in a number of other areas, and it does not include mail transport.
Development seems to have stopped about five years ago. I usually
just create a reply with a text editor after saving the message (F2).
After reading some of the questions that you have raised here, I
started playing around again with a program called ddigest (I have
ddig-007.zip from 1996, check Simtel) that will transform an e-mail
digest into an rnews batch which can be imported into Yarn as a
newsgroup. You might want to have a look at it.
>Several people mentioned Netmail on Simtel. I should mention that
>there are 2 programs with that name on Simtel. One is a shareware part
>of Net Tamer and the other (nmdos200.zip) is a freeware program by
>Mark Ressl. The latter requires outgoing mail to be in a 2-file format:
>one file contains a message header, the other contains the message body.
>Thus, like smtpop12 and some others, one needs to do some kind of
>editing of the mail headers one starts with to get the kind of files
>the mail transport program will accept.
It seems to me that different offline readers "go with" different
transport methods and vice versa. If these are compatible you don't
have to worry so much about the message format. And where do you
start? With the format used by your offline reader or the one used
by the transport program?
Howard E.
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