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Re: sylpheed okay now
- From: "Jim George" <jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk>
- To: "Jan Wells" <jwells at tpk dot net>
- Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:08:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: sylpheed okay now
- Organization: JSDM Services Ltd
- References: <3D370D63.3020402@tpk.net><036f01c22f70$6310e750$0100a8c0@george.co.uk> <20020719205743.6226b140.jwells@tpk.net>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Wells" <jwells@tpk.net>
To: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: sylpheed okay now
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:05:22 +0100
> "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Jan,
> >
> > is this a gnome port dependency? The only reference I could find to
> > sylpheed was 0.77 and that was a source file as part of the gnome port
> > package.
> >
> It was sylpheed version 0.7.8 that failed to work with cygwin. I'm a
> bit dense some days and can be all thumbs re programming and such as
> that. Probably I missed the point of your question. gnome port
> dependency? Probably not, though I'm unclear what that is. I've got
> gnome stuff on my cygwin? Could be, though I forget having ordered up
> such as that. Sylpheed, though, is the mail client available from
> http:\\sylpheed.good-day.net/. While it has always compiled okay
> under cygwin, saving messages to 'draft' and similar operations caused
> a crash recently. This with the next-to-most-recent cygwin1.dll. No
> problems of that sort presently.
>
> There's a pure Windows version of sylpheed available. It's still
> under development. And it's not worked properly on my stand-alone NT
> computer. Getting sylpheed to a useful state under cygwin requires
> a few bash scripts for Windows-based printing, invoking a Windows-based
> browser, and the like.
>
Thanks Jan.
For the list.
Regards,
Jim
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