Hi Antonio & Ryan,

Thank you both for your helpful replies last week.

> > * How can you make an application (eg: claws-mail) start
> > automatically at power-up? (I'm happy working at the command
> > prompt as root.)
>
> I don't know if it's the right way to do this, but I can successfully
> start an application at startup on my Nokia 770 (N800 might differ)
> after doing these steps:

Works perfectly on the N800.  At least for claws-mail, the command had
to be run in background, but that's fine.

> edit the file back to normal; if there's no way, you'll have to reflash.

I had already learned how to do this a bit sooner than I had planned...

> > * Does claws-mail support downloading the text of emails for
> > reading later when there's no wifi connection?  I know the

The ability to do this is a per-folder attribute, not system-wide as it
is in the default mail application.

> > * Does the web browser (don't know if I'm using microb or
> > opera) support proxies? I want to use it with privoxy.

It's a per-connection attribute, not per-application as I was expecting.

Thanks again 

Regards - Peter Edwards