Netscape integration (or whither Southsoft ?)

[David Gaskill]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:49:45 +0100 (BST), Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

>Forget integration with Netscape. Does Southsoft have any plans 
>whatsoever? We were told there would be a new release in May... which 
>has come and gone, much like June has. The excuse of moving to a new 
>location is wearing a little thin.
>Just what is going on with this outfit? 

Yes, I have been wondering about this. 

I recently had a problem and e-mailed support. The response was slow and unhelpful. No sign 
of  Bob or Icon. The problem was eventually solved with the help from this list.  

You mention promised updates but, it to be honest, it is difficult to see the commercial rationale 
for such work. I use the Windows version of PMmail because I originally used OS/2 but when 
IBM abandoned the desktop to Microsoft I had no alternative but to move NT. I continued to 
use PMmail because I was familiar with it and it does everything I want but I have never come 
across a anybody this using the mailer  who hadn't migrated from OS/2. 

Microsoft operating systems come with a perfectly serviceable mail client; I don't like it but then 
I don't like anything that isn't PMmail. 

The list seems to be mostly populated by users of OS/2 who, however much they might wish it 
was otherwise,  are  an ever decreasing group. 

I think if I was Bob or Icon I would be looking to do things other than write mail clients for an 
operating system that is effectively history or trying to complete with products that are being 
given away in the only desktop market there is . 



David