Request for 'i.Scribe' e-mail .DSL extension

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: Request for 'i.Scribe' e-mail .DSL extension
started by: Delboy

Posted by Delboy on Nov. 18 2004,21:49

Can one you gurus please have a go at making a proper working .dsl of the freeware linux version of i.Scribe (see Memecode website). It comes as a .bz2 file. I tried to make a .dsl of this myself as I couldn't get any of the Thunderbird .dsls to work on either of my two machines and I new it would be too slow for my old laptop anyway. It worked partially - enough to show that the functions including integrated contact database and calendar and pop3 mailbox preview worked, all of which I would like. This MUA has anti virus and anti-spam safeguards too.
(I posted this before yesterday but can't find any trace of it!)

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 19 2004,00:09

why not just use Sylpheed?

It's really nice.

besides, there are almost no viruses out there for linux.

What 460-something over the last 6 years?

-SU

Posted by Delboy on Nov. 19 2004,09:38

Sylpheed is nice and I used it for months on earlier versions of DSL. I still use its big brother Sylpheed-claws for the main windows family PC computer which is loaded with AVG anti-virus (yesterday's Netsky B e-mail was stopped OK!). For my small 12.5"TFT laptop screen (which I like) space and display efficiently is important. I found sylpheed a bit cramped. I have been using debian's Xfmail (via apt-get) for this reason for 6 months. There is very little display clutter but is still limited, no mime support and buggy. I miss the pop3 mailbox preview feature on my windows machine e-mail clients that Sylpheed does not provide. I occasionally am guilty of forwarding viruses to work contacts by replying to e-mails in .DSL Xfmail without realising. I would welcome a new client like i.Scribe with some of these built -in safeguards.
Being small, it is in keeping with the keep-it-small DSL ethos.

Posted by ico2 on Nov. 20 2004,23:08

hmmmmm, if they use windows, they will get viruses LOL

Posted by Delboy on Nov. 22 2004,18:05

The other thing I like about 'inScribe' mail (windows version) is the option to have all messages headers in your message browser followed by the first 4 x lines of each message in blue, small font which allows you to close down the viewer pane default - no more opening and closing old mails to see what they are about. Linux version imports Outlook and Eudora mails which must be attractive to a potential DSL convert. Mails are stored in identical format to linux version ie. I could swap between linux and windows installations if er... there was a linux .dsl version of this. I'll shut up now.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Nov. 22 2004,20:29

It is in the "testing" area of the repository..

73
ke4nt

Posted by Delboy on Nov. 23 2004,11:56

Great stuff! Many thanks to the cat in the hat. I'll test it out tonight.

Posted by Delboy on Nov. 24 2004,10:21

Oh dear! Loaded ok but quite slow on this machine (166mhz, 40 ram) - probably database component, opened up sized + scaled ok, looks good . A couple of widgits were missing - text inside 'OK' and 'cancel' and a few other buttons from all menus. I can live with that. Otherwise configured as my normal way with dialup ISP the way I do for Sylpheed or xfmail and: Nothing - no connection to server for both send and recieve. (My windows i.scribe connected fine). Checked everything including pppdialup and reinstalling i.scribe immediately after fresh hdinstall - no luck. Nice try.

Posted by Nanobot on Dec. 01 2004,14:56

I tried it out too...same prob. no connection...constantly came out with a socket error.

Otherwise the features of the program seemed cool, and unlike Sylpheed you can actualy see scandinavian characters as you write a new mail.

Would very much like to see a working version

Posted by Delboy on Dec. 01 2004,17:15

Hooray, I am not alone! Yes I think it is cool too. The 'socket 34 error' message seems so basic that it seems it may be easy to fix, not a major DSL incompatabilty issue - but then what do I know. Hopefully someone can fix this .DSL

Posted by fret on Dec. 05 2004,23:20

The missing button text is something to do with bold fonts. If you delete or rename the liblgiskin-x.so file (the skinning library) then it'll draw the buttons in the system font (non-bold) and so you can see all the text. However it doesn't look as nice.

There is a topic about the connection issues < here >. If you want to add your 2c.

I might have to install DSL on a HD partition to check these issues out in person. I've personally tested Scribe on redhat and gentoo which had neither of these issues.