Re: tlug: StarOffice

[Eric Standlee <fwiw3980@example.com>]

I use fetchmail and pine.  I haven't gotten around to j-pine yet.

I tried nothing and local host in the Star Office setup and it didn't
work.  It seems like Star Office only understands pop retrieval.  Anyone
figure out otherwise?  It would be cool if I had dial-on-demand set up,
but since I have to `ppp-up` to get my ISP service poping with Star
Office isn't as easy as double-clicking that button in their windoze like
tray to get my mail.

I was just hoping to use this integrated office software in every aspect
to test it's abilities....

Eric

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Jonathan Q wrote:

> I don't think so (don't promise, either  :-)   ).  Try nothing.  If
> that
> doesn't fly, try localhost.
> 
> Caveat: so far, I have yet to see anything as reliable as fetchmail plus
> a local mail client.  I've been using Japanese-patched Pine, and am
> transitioning to Japanese-patched Mutt.
> 
> Note: I wouldn't really recommend Mutt for a home user who had a
> generally better choice (J-Pine or Nmail)*, but as a postmaster I have
> to deal with about 10,000 (sometimes more) mails a day, in both English
> and Japanese.  For that, Mutt is not the best choice.  It's the *only*
> choice.
> 
> Note that mutt 1.0pre1-J requires a very recent slanglib-j to build
> (check the jrpm site for one that will work).
> 
> * I need a mail client with powerful pattern matching abilities and
> which doesn't read the whole mbox into memory, or I could never do the
> postmaster mail.  However, privately, I don't recommend mutt as the best
> choice f$or single user home use.  Pine is still much better (2) for
> this.
> 
> Cheer,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> (2) Not from a purely tech standpoint, but from the standpoint of
> delivering features that end users want/need now.
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Eric Standlee wrote:
> 
> > I got the StarOffice cd in the mail the other day.
> > 
> > How do I get it to get my mail from my local mailq
> > (/var/mail/<username>)?
> > 
> > It seems to be looking for a POP3 server.  Do I have to set up POP3?
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
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