[sylpheed:35760] Re: Sylpheed - Patch Install

[tristan]

On 27/08/2013 19:22, cgw993 at aol.com wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.  On these mailing lists, should my response be at
> the bottom of the email or at the top? I am unsure of the etiquette to use.
> What did you mean by Blag 140000, is the 140000 the version?   And what is
> Blag not supported by?   I also have Blag as it was listed on the website of
> the Free Software Foundation as one  of the few completely free
http://www.blagblagblag.org/
Blag 140000is what is what you get when you download from their site its 
based  on
Fedora 14...17 is no longer supported,but i discovered Sylpheed in Blag.....

*this is supported.. its 100% free of any proprietary sofware*:
 >>>>> ftp://blag.fsf.org/160000/en/iso/

> distributions of GNU operating system.    I dedicated a hard drive for only
> Blag and when I boot, if I want to switch operating systems, I go into Bios
> and switch the order of the boot - not sure if that is the same thing as
> dual booting or not.
looks like it ie means you choose which one to use ..
>    Lately, in order to speed up my learning process I
> have installed Oracle Virtual Machine

VM you are a crack!!!i personnaly have had some difficulties on non 
graphical installs and
partioning.....getting out of subject i guess
>   and have installed Blag on that.   On
> that virtual machine I will be installing the other 5 or 6 completely free
> operating systems so that I can check them all out.
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> I have Claws Mail installed as of today, it seems to be working on Windows
> 7.   Did you download from the official websitehttp://www.claws-mail.org/?
yes i did...microsoft?anyhow if i sign up to sylpheed its not to use 
ClawsMail.
i just like the simplicity of its use .
> I do want to get on over to a GNU operating system as soon as possible but
> still the process will take awhile.
well if you are trying them out in Vm box,you have more than an idea.its 
a matter of choice
some others might be able to help i'm a newcomer to all of this 
myself.But its changed my approach
and gnu+linux libre os are so much more user friendly.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:sylpheed-bounces at sraoss.jp  [mailto:sylpheed-bounces at sraoss.jp] On
> Behalf Of tristan
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:58 AM
> To:sylpheed at sraoss.jp
> Subject: [sylpheed:35757] Re: Sylpheed - Patch Install
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> On 27/08/2013 18:33,cgw993 at aol.com  wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I am a new user to Sylpheed.
> me too thats why i joined the mailing list..but i have recently used it on a
> BLAG 140000 gnu+linux(no longer supported OS) and prefered it to
> Thunderbird,Icedove&Evolution,basically a very simple mail client.no fancy
> stuff.
>>     My intent is to eventually transition all of my software over to
>> GPL licensed software, but for now I am using Windows 7 and installing
>> some Free software in order to become familiar with how they work.
> i did the transition 3 months ago and have booted into different
> Gnu+Linux operating systems
> i did try out a few open-source/libre programs on win 7 and often they would
> not install,they were ""incompatible !!""Claws mail by example.If you want
> to run many Gpl sofware best is to use a Gnu+Linux operating system or dual
> boot Win7&another system of your choice.
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>> In Sylpheed, does a user need to install a  patch in order to use a
>> junk mail filter such as Bogofilter?  If so how does a user install
>> this in Windows 7?  I have downloaded Bogofilter from Sourceforge but
>> I do not know how to install it.  Any help would be appreciated.
> sorry can't help yu on that one but spam filtering depends also on your
> mailbox.
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Mach
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