On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:13:35 +0200 "Anders Johansson" wrote:

On Saturday 19 October 2002 13.52, KMcLauchlan wrote: [...]

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I don't know if it's a Sylpheed thing, or a Windowmaker thing, but while URLs are highlighted within the Sylpheed message-view pane, they do not launch a browser. So, I select a URL as text, activate a browser manually, and paste.

This works for Mozilla, but not for Opera. I'm fairly sure that I could paste URLs into Opera from other apps, in KDE. Am I misremembering, or is this a difference between WM and KDE?

I tried the sylpheed and window maker included in 8.1. It works for me. Both using "copy" and "paste" from the menus and using the traditional "select" and "middle-click".

Well, my 8.1 will come when SuSE deigns to supply stock to my local distributor, in Canada. I live in hope. I've got 8.0, and I did a major update with synaptic (first time user) yesterday, which resulted in me booting direclty into WM. The source list was the SuSE8.0 list at gwdg. I'm guessing that the versions of many things that apt-get gave me for my 8.0 are probably different from the versions you have for 8.1 Or, there are a bunch of new settings that I'd have to track down. If I select a URL in a Sylpheed message, I don't just point and click. It doesn't get recognized as a unit. I have to left-button click-and-drag to select it. Then, I can do a [Ctrl]-c to buffer it, and [Ctrl]-v elsewhere to paste -- but not in Opera URL field. However, middle and right clicks do nothing but unselect, unless the selected text was an e-mail address, in which case a new, blank message is launched. By the way, referring back to one of the complaints in the "Top posting is so Microsoftish" thread, in Sylpheed I have not found any combination of methods that will allow me to reply to this list. (I've only had the program for a few hours...) My only options, from menus or icons are to reply to the sender (Anders in this case) or to reply to the sender with cc: to the list. If I put the pointer on the list-email address in a message, and right-click, I get an "add this to the address-list?" dialog, and if I middle-click, I get a new, blank message to the list.... no replied text is quoted. Maybe I just need to re-visit the WM config panel, yet again. /kevin

I installed the PPTP-Client package from Sourceforge, but the instructions presume a fluent knowledge of networking command syntax (like adding routes), which I do not have.

One quick note win2k typically uses L2PT unless pptp is selected. Also important is the type of encryption. What is the error message that your 2000 server give you. Abviously it's a failed connection(improper encryption, incorrect protocol, bad password). Or does it fail to reach the host.

Home Machine ==> D-Link 704P DSL modem/router/firewall ==> Verizon/Westell DSL modem ==> Internet ==> Cisco PIX 520 Firewall ==> W2K VPN server at 206.26.206.115.

Pptp is a weird protocol. Not very many firewalls support it efficiantly. My SMC router claimed it did but when push came to shove it didn't. Verify that this is the case. Finally you need to check with verizon to see if they support this.

The D-Link box performs DHCP and assigns the same private IP address to my home machine (192.168.0.247). The PIX firewall performs NAT for the network at work.

One more thing if your natting your home machine you need to have some way to forward the correct port and protocal (tcp1723 ip47).

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:58:55 +0100 KMcLauchlan wrote:

By the way, referring back to one of the complaints in the "Top posting is so Microsoftish" thread, in Sylpheed I have not found any combination of methods that will allow me to reply to this list. (I've only had the program for a few hours...)

My only options, from menus or icons are to reply to the sender (Anders in this case) or to reply to the sender with cc: to the list. If I put the pointer on the list-email address in a message, and right-click, I get an "add this to the address-list?" dialog, and if I middle-click, I get a new, blank message to the list.... no replied text is quoted.

Get the latest vesion of Sylpheed-claws, .85, it will respond to the list when clicking "reply". I noticed you still are using version .73. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

KMcLauchlan:

If I select a URL in a Sylpheed message, I don't just point and click. It doesn't get recognized as a unit.

Configuration > Common preferences > Tab 'Other' > External commands > Web browser: enter opera %s in this field. Then Opera will be launched if you either double click an URL w/ left button or single click w/ middle button. It just looks a little strange in my Sylpheed 0.8.3; as if the URL is not recognized as such when clicked.

in Sylpheed I have not found any combination of methods that will allow me to reply to this list.

I must say I wouldn't want anything else. It prevents me from accidentally replying to the list. I would suggest to put the SuSE address in your address book. SH