[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Install missed on news reader

[Terry]

On 5/3/05, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> On 6:57 pm 05/03/2005 MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> wrote:
> > On May 3, 2005, at 5:14 PM, John K. Taber wrote:
> > >>  -----Original Message-----
> > >>  On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:36 -0500, John K. Taber wrote:
> > >>>  How do I re-install Mozilla for newsgroups? Alternatively, is
> > >>  there a
> > >>>  news reader like Forte Agent for Linux?
> > >>>
> > >>    If you have Mozilla, you should have the newsreader.
> > >>  MozillaFirefox is just the browser, but what people call Mozilla
> > >>  is usually the suite with email, calendaring and the browser.
> > >
> > >  Well I fired up a thing called Mozilla, but it lacks email and a
> > >  newsreader. I'm guessing that is because at install time I
> > >  specified Evolution for mail instead of Mozilla. I don't actually
> > know.
> > Mozilla is most likely the Icon tag, not the name of the app then.
> > To to the Help->About and it will most likely say Firefox.  You will
> > need to install Thunderbird if you want news reading capabilities (or
> > any other news reader).
> 
> The Mozilla Suite is broken-up into several packages by most distributions
> such as Fedora.  (See 'yum search mozilla')  It is completely possible to
> install the Mozilla web browser without installing the Mozilla mail reader
> component.  This was true way before Firefox(Firebird/Phoenix) existed.
> 
> As I said before, all you need to do is install the mozilla-mail package
> (yum install mozilla-mail).  Although Pan or Thunderbird would be good
> options as well.
> 

I think it was a security measure to "split" things up.
Integration between the email client and browser is breach of security.