Stu Green wrote:
Howard Arons wrote:
Whenever I try to use Netscape 4.04 mail "offline," the program freezes and the windows go blank, requiring a "kill" command.
The browser starts up fine, but one click to the mail window and I'm dead. Things work OK if there's a PPP connection up-and-running however, even though I'm not attempting to send or receive traffic. Bummer.
Anybody had this problem? Is there a fix?
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Try a 'route del default' prior to starting netscape without your ppp running.
I made similar experiences. In my case, netscape started an ippp (ISDN) connection, each and every time I started the mail application. I use dial on demand. This was due to name server queries. It was found that there were requests for news-server adresses. I am not sure wether deleting of the default route might cure this, i saw netscape hanging like that on other occasions and do not remember. (dynamic IP's, lost first packet, a few patches ago ;-)) There were many tips that all did not work in my (but other) cases: delete all .news-<Hostname> files in your home dir. Delete all news-servers from your netscape news / discussion groups. In my case, I renamed the .netscape directory after the above failed, restarted netscape, let it create a new .netscape dir and (oh my god!) entered all prefferences and imported my e-mail adresses from .whatever dir. It can be helpful to enter _all_ requested names into /etc/hosts, but I did not have the nerve to do that, though it was obvious. Jürgen -- ========================================== __ _ Jürgen Braukmann e-mail: brauki@cww.de | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ========================================== /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e