interesting use of 'agents'

interesting use of 'agents'

[hardaker]

Well, so I was thinking.  You see, I've been stuck in W95 for a while
for mailing (due to problems with linux and my modem) (which may,
fortunately, end in the near future at least), but anyhow, my problem
goes something like this:

I have all these development type mailing lists that I'd prefer to
handle in Linux, as thats where I do my code development.  Currently,
I read my mail under the NT port of emacs using gnus (as always :-).
It works fine, except I miss a few things, like a decent mime editor
(tm doesn't work) and the smiley icons.  Other than that, I'm damn
impressed that it works at all.

Now.  Seems to me, I could do something like this:  Download and read
mail as normal under W95 (I'd have to switch to qgnus here, which I
haven't done yet, but...) and then under the linux side use
gnus-unplugged and link in the News and Mail directories as well as
the .newsrc.eld file.  Then I can actually read and send mail from
there (through the drafts folder) and actually do the sending the next
time I switch back again.

All this is somewhat mute, as I will hopefully be picking up a
temporary borrowed modem tomorrow sometime to use instead.  Hopefully,
my job should be providing me with an ISDN line once I actually get a
job (they said they would at least).  Thats why I haven't bought a
modem yet.  But.  You certainly don't care about this...

Wes
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Re: interesting use of 'agents'

[Arnd Kohrs]

hardaker@calwest.net writes:

> I read my mail under the NT port of emacs using gnus (as always :-).
> It works fine, except I miss a few things, like a decent mime editor
> (tm doesn't work) and the smiley icons.  Other than that, I'm damn
> impressed that it works at all.
> 

Tm does work, once you've applied a patch.  See 
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
for further details. 

Good luck,

Arnd.
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