Re: Email and acrimony

[Frank Heydenrych frankh@xxxxxxxx]

This e-mail, Paul, summarises the problem we all have: accommodating a
DOS-only word processor, the best ever, in a world, that only understands
extended coding and overkill, but where we must at some time play in this
bloated world.




At 10:27 22/06/00 +0200, you wrote:
> Brilliant. Just brilliant. Where did that Gilbert and Sullivan come from?
> They would be proud of that ... But I digress.
>
> There is a switch in Eudora to stop sending duplicates
> (Tools/Options/Styled Text) but I cannot see the same in my Microsoft
> product which I never use anyway. But:
>
> Why does some email arrive full of % signs?
>
> Does anyone know where I can find a simple explanation of the Coding
> options (Mime, UUencode etc)?
>
> Why do some people get only blank emails if the original email is formatted?
>
> And - strictly ON topic - has any XyWin user ever got SEND MAIL to work?
> When I start XyWin there is SEND MAIL in the EDIT menu, the implication
> being that you can create a message in XyWrite and effortlessly pass it to
> your email software. Click on it and you are asked whether you want to use
> the open file or stored file, and whether you want an attachment. After all
> that. however, I get ane error message:
>
> SMI not enabled in Win.Ini Cannot send mail
>
> And the Send Mail is now greyed out in the menu.
>
> However in Win.Ini I have:
>
> [Mail]
> SMI=1
> MAPI=1
> MAPIX=1
> OLEMessaging=1
> CMC=1
> CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
> CMCDLLNAME32=MAPI32.DLL
> Exchange=C:\Progra~1\Window~1\exchng32.exe
>
> I have the Eudora MAPI server on when running, whatever that means. I know
> people use XyWrite for email by copying text into other programs, but that
> is balls-aching, particularly given the ludicrous limit on how much you can
> copy to the Windoze Clipboard. If there is a SEND MAIL item on a XyWin
> menu, presumably somebody at some time thought it would work ...
>
>
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