btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko) (10/15/90)
Is there an easy way to make NeXT mail compatible with the 80-column world? I knew that there was something that I didn't like about a machine proportionally spacing my text as I type it... the lines run over on fixed spacing displays making them annoying to read. Is there a simple fix? Can you set your mail to not use proportional spacing for text display? Etc. Thanks! (Please spare me lectures about the glory and easy readability of proportionally-spaced text.) -- Bradley T. Banko Dept of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign banko@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) (10/16/90)
In article <1990Oct15.165251.27787@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko) writes: >Is there an easy way to make NeXT mail >compatible with the 80-column world? >Is there a simple fix? Can you set your mail >to not use proportional spacing for text display? Easy fix: punt on NeXT Mail and use MailManager (or EasyMail), available from via anonymous FTP from FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (128.95.112.1) on the "imap" directory. MailManager (not to be confused with the NeXT program of the same name) is an electronic mail user interface supporting local mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail and mail.txt (MM) format as well as remote mailboxes using the IMAP2 protocol of RFC-1176. MailManager supports an address book, a sophisticated mailbox search, and sophisticated message management. EasyMail is a simpler albeit compatible version intended for novices or first-time e-mail users. Unlike NeXT Mail, MailManager is designed with function and the ability to scale to large mailboxes (thousands of messages) as opposed to "cute" in mind. The current release is the July 1990 version. A new version will be released later this year supporting file attachments using RFC-1154 message encoding. _____ | ____ ___|___ /__ Mark ("Gaijin") Crispin "Gaijin! Gaijin!" _|_|_ -|- || __|__ / / R90/6 pilot, DoD #0105 "Gaijin ha doko?" |_|_|_| |\-++- |===| / / Atheist & Proud "Niichan ha gaijin." --|-- /| |||| |___| /\ (206) 842-2385/543-5762 "Chigau. Gaijin ja nai. /|\ | |/\| _______ / \ MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU Omae ha gaijin darou" / | \ | |__| / \ / \"Iie, boku ha nihonjin." "Souka. Yappari gaijin!" Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo tsukatte, umaku ikanaku temo shiranai yo.
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (10/16/90)
In article <9312@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes: >MailManager (not to be confused with the NeXT program of the same >name) Well, the Workspace Manager sure got confused--it displayed the same icon for both (i.e. got one wrong). I wonder if this is fixed in 2.0??? -=EPS=-
2211ab@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (2211ab) (10/16/90)
I think there is some provision for this in 2.0. I don't know for sure, because I don't have a machine, but during the demo our NeXT rep made a point of the fact that mail now works better.
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (10/18/90)
NeXTmail in the 2.0 release provides means for sending non-NeXT mail. In the mean time you could also set courier or ohlfs as your standart font for mail => no proportional spacing. -- Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
briand@rfengr.com (Brian Dear) (10/18/90)
While we're talking about NeXTmail -- I'm interested in reciving
NeXTmail from anyone out there for the purposes of making our
software compatible with it. I'm particularly interested in the
header format of the mail. We don't have our NeXT machine(s)
yet, but want to get started on studying how we're going to port
our software over to the NeXT. We want it to support NeXTmail
so we need to understand what the headers look like. So, for anyone
who might have a moment, can you send me some NeXTmail via UUCP
or Internet to:
internet: coconet!brian@ucsd.edu
UUCP: ucsd!coconet!brian
Thanks in advance!
-- brian dear
coconut computing, inc.
la jolla, ca