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Re: Screwed up newsreaders...
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Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:45:30 GMT
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:39EA3952.70C13421@mindspring.com...
> will say for Netscape is that it doesn't seem to mind co-existing with
> Outlook '98 as much, it also doesn't force me to send e-mail using
> Outlook '98 like Outlook Express does [of course I could also look for a
> different program for my primary e-mail program, but I have yet to see
> one which competes well with Outlook '98, and any replacement would HAVE
> to be able to import my Outlook .pst files).

Outlook Express forces you to use Outlook 98 for sending email? Something
weird in your config then, as OE is a full email and newsreader program and
doesn't even need Outlook. In fact Outlook needs OE to enable newsgroups.

Have you looked at Pegasus Mail for a mail client? I use it for everything
except a couple of accounts where OE is advantageous (for handling Outlook
specific mail attachments for instance). I would use OE/Outlook if they
supported per message notation which is a great feature of PM - I can write
myself notes against each message to remind me what I did in the way of
followups.

Dan



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  Re: Screwed up newsreaders...
 
(...) The problem is that Outlook 98 and Outlook Express seem to use some joint configuration wrto e-mail. The result is that I have been unable to configure OE to send the e-mail itself. I think the problem may be that both applications are MAPI. (26 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Screwed up newsreaders...
 
Just noticed a way in which Netscape Communicator 4.75 is screwed up. It determines threads solely by subject (unless I'm missing a configuration option, I remember WinVN had several options for how to handle threading which gave you a choice as to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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