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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       Alan Shoemaker <shoemake () pe ! net>
Date:       2000-03-17 0:04:27
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Frank....I believe that your conclusion is innaccurate.  My ISP
does not do that.

Alan


sotl155360 wrote:
> 
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, sotl155360 wrote:
> >
> > > Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > <Snip>
> > >
> > > > 2) It seems that no other browser can actually compete with IE. Neither
> > > > Netscape Navigator, nor Opera nor Grail, etc... seems to be able to
> > > > completely replace IE on the normal user desktop. The other browsers seems
> > > > to be either too unripe or too "Spartan" for competing with IE. The only
> > > > people that I know who use Netscape or Opera, do it for "political" reasons,
> > > > rather than for its supposed technical superiority.
> > >
> > > <Snip>
> > >
> > > First, as many of you are aware I am not a hacker or even a programer
> > > just a advanced user. Obviously fairly advanced as I am able to cope
> > > with and follow many of the problems on this list. It is important to
> > > clarify my competence level as I totally completely disagree with the
> > > previous quoted assessment. Now I will not devolve into the realm of
> > > whether IE 5.0 is more advanced than Netscape MS Windows 4.7 or not. I
> > > will state that the versions of Netscape MS Windows 4.7 is more advanced
> > > than Netscape Linux 4.7 as the first uses POP3 and the second uses POP
> >
> > Just a comment:
> >
> > Erm... netscape for linux uses POP3. There has not been a POP client that
> > used something else (say, POP2) in 5 years :-)
> >
> I have RH 6.1 with Netscape 4.61 which was later upgraded as of 10 days
> ago to the latest 4.7 version posted by RH.
> 
> Go to Edit > Preferences > Mail & Newsgroup > Mail Server > Incoming
> Mail Server and you will find you have a choice of POP, Move Mail, or
> IMAP.
> 
> In discussions with Earthlink I found that POP was not POP3.
> 
> To address my mail in Netscape I am utilizing 207.217.120.xxx.
> 
> In Kmail I am using POP3 where I access my mail via mail.earthlink.net.
> 
> Two weeks ago, and some of you may recall my postings concerning this on
> this list I screwed up and accessed my Netscape account sotl155360 with
> Kmail. I wanted to access the same account from two different programs
> just as I can dial up my ISP from both Kppp and Usernet - backup.
> 
> Netscape mail stopped working.
> 
> Two weeks of hell later I discover that if you access a POP account with
> a POP3 mail program the POP account converts into a POP3 account. Or
> another way of expressing this is if you access a static address account
> with a dynamic addressing program your ISP converts the static account
> address to a dynamic address. This was results was posted on the KDE
> list over a week ago.
> 
> In MS Windows I have Netscape 4.7?. There I have POP3 and I am using
> dynamic addressing - mail.earthlink.net.
> 
> Hope this helps in explaining some of the problems with Netscape.
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
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