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   On Thu, 10/30/2025 4:40 PM, s|b wrote:   
   > On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:18:33 +0100, lisa wrote:   
   >   
   >> I run  Forté Agent without problems ( email and newsgroups )   
   >> on Mint v22.x in PlayOnLinux with Wine v9. You don't need to run it in   
   >> PlayOnLinux, but for the moment I use POL as frontend.   
   >   
   > I will give it a go. Last time I tried this it was under Wine. I also   
   > remember the fonts acting funky: unread messages not bold or coloured   
   > red. But there was a fix to this (choose another font).   
   >   
   >> you need to make the following configuration change in AGENT.INI.   
   >>   
   >> AllowedSSLProtocols=2688   
   >>   
   >> if that's your problem with running  Forté Agent on Mint.   
   >   
   > This is now set to   
   >   
   > AllowedSSLProtocols=10880   
   >   
   > This was based on:   
   >   
   > From: Ralph Fox   
   > Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent   
   > Subject: Notice:  Agent and SSL   
   > Message-ID:    
   > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:22:04 +1300   
   >   
   > because I'm running W11. Your setting is meant for Windows before   
   > Windows 10 version 1903.   
   >   
      
   There are a set of free Microsoft fonts (as a package)   
   that may be listed in WineTricks. They might have been   
   TrueType ones, basic ones (like a TimesRoman maybe, plus   
   a few others). I'm not very good at the Wine thing,   
   of picking items, to fix problems there. The fonts might   
   improve the appearance of an application that relies on   
   those being in the system folder.   
      
   All I remember, is you need to enable multilib, in   
   order for wine32 and wine64 to both be available. And   
   Forte Agent might be a wine32 candidate. A pre-boiled   
   environment can include some of these things, but the   
   multilib might be in Synaptic or something. It's a library   
   setting that allows coexistence with 64-bit libraries.   
   Otherwise, you might look for wine32 and not find it.   
      
   When it comes to other libraries, you have to look   
   some of those up, to figure out whether you should   
   be using a WineTricks entry, or you should just download   
   the package directly from Microsoft and install it.   
   That's one of the reasons I had to start over, setting   
   up WINE. Generally speaking, if you plan on making   
   WINE adjustments on a given day, make a backup first   
   in case you need to roll it back.   
      
   You don't have to do too many things, to get WINE ready   
   to roll, but if someone doesn't warn you about the   
   "sharp edges and missing warnings", this can easily   
   turn you off on the usage of WINE. It could be so   
   much better with a few defaults tossed in. Like if   
   the WineTricks has 100 entries in it, you might only   
   need a small number like five or seven of them.   
   There is no requirement to "push all the buttons".   
   Some people like to carpet bomb softwares that   
   have tick boxes, and that is also going to lead   
   to frustration if you get carried away. As some   
   of the tick boxes "must not be ticked". You tick   
   just the ones that are justifiable dependencies   
   (like, you're going to need some amount of .NET   
   to make a workable thing).   
      
      Paul   
      
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