News/email client?

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Doc said:
Why not have the best of both ... a REAL dedicated newsreader and a REAL
dedicated email client ? Do you really expect a combined program to satisfy
both needs ?
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Actually, yes. I have been using Turnpike for about 8-9 years quite
happily, until I bought this notebook and since then Turnpike keeps
crashing. I've tried all sorts to fix it but no luck yet. :(
 
You may want to investigate the exporting capabilities (if any) of turnpike.

LB
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Apparently I need to export thus: Mail in Berkeley mailbox format and
News in Batch news. Trouble is, I don' know how the exports arrive in
other programs i.e. does the export retain the original layout etc.
 
Rosie said:
Yes, AIUI. If you use Demon as your ISP you get it free, otherwise you
pay. I'm not sure but it is about £15 or so.
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Thanks. I was going to download it, but now I know there's no use.
 
Jeff Needle said:
Thanks. I was going to download it, but now I know there's no use.
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Although it costs a bit it really is a very good program! I'm still
trying to get it to work!
 
(wandering OT ... won't be long ...)
Hi Roger. I seem to remember you inhabiting the
demon.ip.support.turnpike group? Are you familiar with reverting back to
TP5?
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Yup, but for only long enough to convince me to keep TP5.01. I'm still
with Win98se and all this shell integration of TP6x gives me the
willies, and as a result have only the sketchiest experience of
reverting. Quite honestly I don't think I had TP6x installed for long
enough to have anything to export.
I've had a look at Demon Announce but I'm not sure about the
process. Are they saying that if I export my TP6.04 files in Berkeley
mailbox for news and batch news then TP5 will 'recover' them in their
correct format?
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Don't see why not. TP5x handles Berkeley format.
Also, the procedure says 'Restore the Turnpike 5 files from your
backups'. What TP 5 files are they talking about, as surely I only have
TP6 files in the TP folder at the moment? Or do they mean the exported
Berkeley files and batch news files?
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Er, ah ... pass.
I would dearly love to stay with TP but I've had 2 'Terminate' crashes
this morning already. :(
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If you like its plain interface you'll like TP5.01, and as it only
writes a file association to Registry I don't see why you couldn't
install TP5.01 in parallel with your existing TP6x, and have a dabble
with importing/exporting stuff.

Sorry I can't be more help. I see you have posted in dist and I see the
normal withering response from the experts. Merciless lot. :-)

Cheers

PS what about Free Agent? I quite liked it, but not as much as TP.
 
Rosie said:
Actually, yes. I have been using Turnpike for about 8-9 years quite
happily, until I bought this notebook and since then Turnpike keeps
crashing. I've tried all sorts to fix it but no luck yet. :(
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I've been using Turnpike for nearly 10 years and haven't found anything
better. I'm looking for alternatives because Demon have decided to stop
development. So fat I haven't seen any other Windows programs that
handle mail and news as well.
 
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