Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: Dan Crevier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:22:32 -0700
On 4/29/2002 3:00 AM, "Jens Bauer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi everyone,
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I don't know what to do about this; wishing they'd kept to the Internet
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Config standards, to save me and others for some trouble.
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Does anybody know how to set up the email settings in Outlook Express
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programmatically ?
Use AppleScript. Account creation if scriptable (make new pop account with
properties {...}).
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I've used Internet Config, which *works* the very first time Outlook
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Express is started.
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It seems to me that it:
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1: If no settings file exist, it copies the settings from Internet Config.
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2: Whenever the user makes changes in Internet Config they're ignored.
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3: Whenever the user changes the email settings from within OE, it
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overwrites the Internet Config.
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Is the solution to just delete the outlook express settings each time I'm
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changing Internet Config ?
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I'd like to recommend to those people developing internet applications to
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*USE INTERNET CONFIG*, please!
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(This includes Microsoft as well.)
Internet Config only supports information about a single account. OE
supports multiple accounts. It doesn't make sense for OE to try to stay in
sync with Internet Config.
Dan
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