![]() ![]() Do you really want to do this? One dead puppy.As soon as I get my new computer running, I’ll install Outlook again and get rid of Gmail.I don’t know how anyone could have even a chance of using Gmail.One thing I’ve seen now, somehow people are using a lot of e-mail software that just insists on everything using the ideas of ‘attachments’ as in MIME (multi-media internet mail extensions - in an IETF RFC) with UTF-8, quoted-printable, HTML, base 64 and combinations of and/or nearly all of these even in a just dirt simple e-mail message of a few lines of ordinary typing that works fine in the first 128 codes of ASCII. Oh, how I HATE smart-ass programmers that believe they have a long list of really great favors they will do for you.If they were designing a car, then when slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a puppy, the brakes would do nothing and, instead, a window would pop up, at the top of the screen Z-order, saying:Heavy application of the brakes might cause a skid with loss of steering and control. But, I did give my real name in my Google account logon, and, then, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn Gmail looks up my account real name and puts that in the header lineFrom:Bummer. ![]() But no way do I want my real name used in the e-mail I send via Gmail. Then Rexx has the basic TCP/IP calls, and that’s mostly what you need for sending/receiving e-mail.To read, write, search, and filter, get a copy of the text editor KEdit which lets you use a good version of Rexx as a macro language.Rexx is no toy, long was the basis of all of the personal, office, and administrative computing for all of IBM.For translating quoted-printable and base 64, can write some nice routines in Rexx or KEdit.Stuff like encryption and authentication I haven’t looked into - they may be harder.For Gmail, they make a mess out of standard e-mail for the user interface (UI) apparently their programmers thought that they had some so much better ideas than work with the data as in the standard IETF RFCs (internet engineering task force requests for comments).E.g., for the header lineFrom:Gmail just insists, feet locked four feet deep in reinforced concrete, with bitter, iron determination to rewrite my entry forFrom:So, they include my real name. For receiving, I got the e-mail software I wrote long ago going again.From this last, I see again that for software for good e-mail filtering, searching, cross referencing, etc., just write your own.So, get a copy of Open Object Rexx and a copy of the book on Rexx by Mike Cowlishaw. Well, the computer is so sick the e-mail software I’ve been using, Microsoft’s Outlook 2003, won’t install.So, for sending e-mail, I got a Gmail account. No joke.It’s possible mostly to keep it simple, and then it’s, uh, simple.My motherboard is sick so I need a new computer so I’m ordering parts the case shipped already the motherboard will likely ship today then I’ll order the first batch of the rest it will be my new computer and also my first server for my startup then I will fix my old computer with a new motherboard, processor, and one disk drive to give me a second computer and/or a dedicated development computer.But with the sick computer, I had to reinstall Windows. ![]() ![]() One candidate solution: Write your own e-mail software. ![]()
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