mail programs

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: mail programs
started by: mpie

Posted by mpie on June 20 2004,00:46

hi i,ve been trying to install mozilla thunderbird as sylpheed doe's nt really fulfill my need. i've down loaded it unpacked it but not sure where to link dir's as am also running firefox, i've looked on the moz forums but dsl is not mentioned i wondered if anyone has pulled this off and how? pretty please ;)

Posted by tecker on June 20 2004,02:11

ok when you download thunderbird have firefox save it to your home directory (it should do that automaticly).

Open EmelFM (the file manager cant recall the name)

Navigate to your home directory (from a default boot /RAMDISK/home/damnsmall) and look for the tar.gz file

If you find it and double click and enter it there should be a folder. if not try navigating up one level as you went to deep if there are a bunch of files. if not try and redownload the file or check where the files are being saved.

On the other side of EmelFM navigate to the home directory and select copy. Now thunderbird sould be uncompressed.

Navigate into the folder and double click on the 'thunderbird' thunderbird should come up. If not, try closing Firefox.

look at < http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtop....#146623 >
to explain why thunderbird will not appear when you have firefox running.

Hope this works for you. :cool:

Posted by mpie on June 20 2004,08:11

when i clich to run get err message of shared dir libgtk2+..............................ant thoughts anyone or how's about a dsl ext thunderbird? ;(

Posted by tecker on June 21 2004,22:16

hey i followed the steps that i created and it loaded. Have you tried the new Thunderbird 7? Redownload the new 0.7 and tell me if you still have problems.

Posted by mpie on June 21 2004,23:16

yea was 0.7 i tried, any ideas or can you name another mail client tried kmail installed and run fine but err connecting to mail acc ntl

Posted by tecker on June 23 2004,02:35

Hmm

, I know. What myDSL packages are loading on your boot. Are you using a stock DSL image with no extras in startup. Mabye one of my .dsl I load has that file. Let me try doing a blank boot and looking at it. Post what you load and i will emulate that on my computer. Take care.

Posted by mpie on June 24 2004,15:00

have tried on a base install but won't run when i command it

Posted by mpie on June 27 2004,08:58

when i click on thunderbird to run cant access shared libmoz.js , is this the java file ifso is there a way around this??? if not is there a simular mail/browser combination as the other mail clients i have tried qmail,kmail,mutt cannot follow html links in window