[lug] Star Office and Netscape confict?

[D. Stimits]

David Willcox wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have had Netscape working fine for reading and sending mail. After setting
> up the mail option in Star Office 5.1 I
> was able to send from SO but when I recieved Mail it would
> only have sender address with no mail message below it.
> Instead it would show me a total of '0' bytes used.
> So I went back to Netscape and tried to read mail and it
> would throw Netscape totally out of the Desktop.
> 
> This caused me to go for my last ditch effort for mail which
> was 'kmail' and it worked great. But now it has a corrupt
> message and I can't get anything on it but Wade gave me some clues.
> 
> Any Ideas how I could get any Mail reading again ? I like
> Netscape better.
> 
> Thanks ahead for any type of help that would give me confort with email,
> 
> Dave Willcox :-)
> 
> PS. I am using Linux SuSE 6.4 and KDE

Go into Netscape options, set up preferences so the initial application
to start is the email. Then run something like "strace -oNetscapeLog.txt
netscape-communicator", and see why it exits early, near the end of the
log.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com