Not sure how all the mail about dos, graphics and survpc fits together,
but like many of you I have tried a whole bunch of Dos-based mail
transport systems and dos offline readers. I thought they almost had
me (i.e., the winblows people) with the new ``Auth'' authentication
dialogues to authenticate yourself before being allowed to send out
ESMTP (enhanced SMTP) mail. But, so far, myst SMTP servers still
honor the pop-before-smtp form of authentication.
I currently use netmail to send out my mail, since it is the only
dos mail transport I have found that reliably ends each message line
with the RFC required \r\n (carrage return, linefeed) pair, and
mailservers like yahoo are getting picking about that sort of thing.
I tend to like to use pcpine to read and download my mail, because
I my ISP gives you WEB, pop-smtp, and imap access. I can quickly
delete spam on my surver with pine, before I even think about what I
want to download.
I still use Yarn and Readmail in dos to read my text/graphics mail
once its gets to my disk. The advantage of a format like SOUP is
mostly speed. Programs can parse and display the messages a lot faster
than messages in, say, unix mailbox format-- when you have to examine
each line for a starting header, etc.
I can not think of an image within a message, read from yarn I cant
read with my MIME decoder and set of viewers (I use uudecode and
arachne for html that I really want to view nicely).
Readmail still undigests digests best for me, and it is such a
pleasure to have those 20 submessages in one mail message from survpc
broken up into separate mail messages before my very eyes.
I have configured yarn and readmail so that can both reply and compose
mail to the same soup packet (actually sent out with netmail).
I did not find the programs that converted unix mailbox to from the
text and wrk files liked by netmail very intelligent about Bcc, various
address formats, etc. Instead I have written awk scripts that are
smart, fast (I actually use mawk for the speed), and do most of my
message filtering for me, as needed.
Im still not setup to listen to a realaudio or mp3 file sent in mail as
an attachment, but hey -- you cant have absolutely everything.
I was amused to come across a script/program combination that tried to
emulate imap access with a pop server: It did things like let you download
only the headers of the mail waiting for you on your server. Then you
could examine the headers, and use user-friendly versions of actual
POP commands to download, say only message numbers 1 3 and 8, etc.
Any questions?
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