Re: lynx-dev Sending mail

[Vitor Oliveira]

Hi: I'm using this version and I didn't find this problem. Wouldn't you
forget to configure the email address in options menu?


----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
To: Harri Tuominen <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Sending mail


> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Harri Tuominen wrote:
>
> > I noticed that I can't send mail when I choose "p" and "Mail the file".
But
> > mailto URLs work as they have done before. This happens with DOS port
> > 2.8.3dev.5. I haven't had this kind of problem with earlier development
> > versions.
>
> Is this a copy that you compiled yourself, the one from my web site,
> or a different compilation?
>
> > I added a pause command to the sendmail.bat to see what is wrong, but it
> > seems that Lynx didn't start the batch at all. In the lynx.cfg I have:
> > SYSTEM_MAIL:sendmail
> > When I choose a MAILTO link from a Web page, everything goes well.
>
> I'll try to check this on my copy. I don't know that I've ever tried
> to mail a file from the print menu. Which "sendmail" are you using? Is
> this Alfredo Cole's "sendmail.exe" with the "sendmail.bat" file that I
> wrote, or are you using tcpport.exe with mailout.exe?
>
> > I also noticed that DOS port of Lynx doesn't translate character set
> > from ISO-8859-1 to CP850, which I have set as display character set,
> > when reading news articles.
>
> This sounds strange. The DOS port only started doing news recently.
> Perhaps something needs to be tweaked. How do you know that it isn't
> translating the character sets? Did you try setting your display
> character set to something else (say ISO-8859-1)? Are the displays
> identical for characters which should be different?
>                              Doug
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