Re: mail-to resolved (Was: Re: [cobalt-users] New Cobalt Forum)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> Eudora must be a PoS then. If it can't be set per-message, can you then at
> least set your Reply-To header on a global basis? (even Outlook Express does
> that)

Won't argue the PoS part; I've NOT bought their latest update, since the
previous version was so bad.  I use it for one specific reason, which
I'll get to.

To answer your direct question, yes, you can set it globally, though
they don't document how anywhere anyone will find it (it's in the
reference manual, as I recall).  You do it by editing an old-fashioned
ini file (really <frown>).

But if you do that, then you've got it when you DON'T want or you DON'T
have it when you DO want it <frown, yet again>.

> You should try using Gnus instead of Eudora (or that Netscape you seem to be
> using now). It is _great_. (And yep, I know I'm emailing this from a
> different program for a change).

I'm running Win98 (soon to be WinME) desktops.  I use Eudora for the
most of my email because it allows me multiple personalities, among
which I may pick and choose, so I can receive and send mail from/to
different email addresses at different domains.

I don't use it on lists because I need to thread list messages, and
Eudora doesn't do that (sorting by subject is emphatically NOT the same
thing).  But Netscape requires me to shut it down and reopen it to
change personalities <frown>.

I was looking forward to Netscape 6, as the mail program was to have had
multiple personalities as well as excellent threading.  But Netscape 6
handles the web so bad (and of course that would be the main thing I'd
use it for) that I won't use it at all.

Someone has told me that "the bat" (or something like that) will do what
I need, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.  Real soon now
<wry grin>.

Will Gnus work under my Windows, and will it do what I want?

> And if we should design the internet according to who knews how to use it's
> features, we would still be having an Internet, where everyone knows each
> other by first name.

I kind of liked it that way <nostalgic grin>.

Jeff
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