Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:33:14PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sami Dalouche:
> > > The operative word being `need to'. It'd be a very good feature indeed
> > > if the e-mail client checked the size of the message and said, when
> > > appropriate, something along the lines of "this is an unusually large
> > > message by Internet standards; are you sure? (y/N)" and popped up a
> > > wizard for other ways of transferring the file.
> >
> > Hey ! Writing such a software for Windows os OK and usual but do not
> > begin to do this under Linux !
>
> Actually, I think I *was* talking about Windows, but why not Linux? (OK,
> apart from the pop-up-wizard bit...)
>
> Every mailer I've seen has a send/abort/headers/whatever screen just before
> the message goes off. In elm, most of the screen is blank for that! It'd be
> just as easy to use that part of screen for netiquette warnings.
>
Ah ! You just want that the software tells you what's the size of your
message w/o a popup ?
Mutt does this well.
see :
===== Attachments =====
1 /tmp/mutt-pingoo-16220-0 [text/plain, 7bit, 19K]
2 =inbox [text/plain,8bit, 507K]
This is a part of his last screen. What's the matter with Mutt ? He doesn't
add all the size to give a global size ? Maybe it's configurable.
> (I think tin - the newsreader - does that for postings. After you compose a
> post, when it's asking you whether you want to post/quit/edit/pgp, it often
> shows a message saying "your post exceeds 78 columns; people may have
> trouble with that; the first line to exceed 78 columns is: `...'" or
> something on those lines.)
> > > It's one thing to send Christmas gifs to people that are a couple of
> > > hundred bytes long; it's quite a different story when it's a huge,
> > > uncompressed bitmap which does exactly the same job. Sadly, in most
> > > e-mail clients either would be just a filename, with no immediate
> > > indication of how big it really is.
> >
> > If u insist to have a such function, maybe Mutt can do that...
>
> That's where it belongs, isn't it? (Well, maybe there should be a
> standalone version of that program, too - you'd give it a prepared message
> and it'd give back any warnings, with exit code 0 for OK, 1 for minor faux
> pas, etc.)
>
>
> Jiri
> --
> Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au>
> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently
> quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
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