Re: Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re: Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re: Re(2): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: Dan Crevier <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:53:27 -0700
On 5/1/2002 8:09 AM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 05/01/2002 03:04, "Jens Bauer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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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.
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> Yup it is, and it's also possible for a mail application to read multiple
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> sets.
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Okay, from the administrator end...IC, at least it's UI's suck for multiple
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accounts. You have to create multiple configurations, one per mail account.
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PowerMail may be able to read them all, but creating them is quite tedious,
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and rather manual. While I have used IC for creating certain default
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settings, I generally use AppleScript to do the real work.
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On Scripts failing...barring the machine crashing, which can happen if you
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are using IC as well, I've never had a setup script die on me, and that
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includes running them on Macs in batches of ten across a network via
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netOctopus.
Also, OE supports multiple "identities", each of which can have multiple
accounts. Old versions of OE swapped data in and out of IC, and I think
that was a disaster.
Dan
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