Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 09:04:42 +0200
Hi Eric,
On Tue, 30 Apr, 2002, Eric Gundrum <email@hidden> wrote:
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>Use AppleScript. Account creation if scriptable (make new pop account with
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>properties {...}).
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This has one major disadvantage: I have to run OE to run the script. That
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means the user will see an app launch (hopefully in the background) and
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wonder what is going on while the script runs. It seems to me that poking
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into the OE settings files might provide a better user experience.
Same thing here, and *what if* the AppleScript fails ?
We have much more control over Internet Config.
How do we go about Netscape and (not to mention) all the other non-
standard mail applications ?
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There also is the issue of suppressing the New Account wizard, which I
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think can best be handled by making certain OE always has settings files
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(as was described previously).
Heh. Yea, or while we're at it; why not write a NOP or B directly into
the OE code to disable that wizard forever ?
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>Internet Config only supports information about a single account. OE
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>supports multiple accounts. It doesn't make sense for OE to try to stay in
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>sync with Internet Config.
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If Internet config supports only a single account, how does the Internet
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control panel support multiple data sets? I always assumed the Internet
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control Panel was an interface to IC.
Yup it is, and it's also possible for a mail application to read multiple
sets.
Love,
Jens
--
Jens Bauer, Faster Software.
-Let's make the World better, shall we ?
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