Mailto: suggestion

[Jim LeBay]

Several people have sent me mail suggesting that I set the Preference in
Mail for "New Mail Retrieval" to "Manual".  I already did this long ago,
but I'd rather not even launch Mail.app if I don't have to.  For one thing
it's slow, and for another the big "Get Mail" button makes me nervous... 

I got another suggestion from John Milton which I plan to implement ASAP.
> You can also whip up a small app, call it Mail.app and put it
> in ~/Apps.  This app would do an "open pine" sort of thing.

(Thanks John!)

The reason I stopped using NeXT's Mail.app is that it's tied to the
console.  I need to access my email from many different terminals all over
the building and campus, plus from home.  Once Mail.app grabs my messages,
and stores them in it's own non-standard format, I can't easily get at
them from anywhere else.  Besides, I like Pine.  If Mail, or any other NS
mail application, was compatible with the standard UNIX mail folders used
by Pine, I wouldn't mind trying it. 

Either way, I would like to see a Preference in the next version of
OmniWeb to let me choose which program to use for "mailto:". 

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Jim LeBay                           (517) 353-1800 x143   353-5364 (FAX)
Computing Information Center        lebay at msu.edu
Michigan State University           lebay at mercury.cl.msu.edu (NeXTmail)
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