Re: Debian 2.2 crashes with Netscape..help

[Nikolai.Hlubek@t-online.de (nikolai.hlubek@mailbox.tu-dresden.de)]

Hi there. 

Before spending money on a new system you should 
really think about switching to a more Unix like way 
of handling mail. 

There are several programs which are very powerful 
when dealing with mail, and because they are used 
at the shell or out of a script they don't consume 
nearly as much memory as Netscape or Gnome. 

For example I use a combination of 
exim, fetchmail, procmail and mutt.
(I assume you have a dialup internet connection, too
 otherwise fetchmail is not needed)

-Exim delivers local and remote mail, 
-fetchmail gets your messages of the server
  (can be configured to check all your e-mail 
   addresses in one run)
-procmail sorts the messages to various files, 
  (is not needed but very useful if you are 
   subscribed to a few mailinglists)
-mutt finally is a text-based mail reader


Hope I convinced you ;-)

Nikolai.

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