Re: Re(4): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re: Re(4): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re: Re(4): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:17:39 -0400
On 05/02/2002 12:12, "Jens Bauer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm (seriously) very interested, if you can come up with a better
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interface for IC.
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You need to think about the following:
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Multiple locations.
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Multiple accounts.
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-Do not think about backwards compatiblity; this can be solved.
IC should stay the hell out of my email setup. Default email application?
Sure. Default servers? Okay. But accounts That's just dumb. I'm not that
thrilled with the servers, but most folks only use a single ISP from home at
least. I'm admittedly insane here. Having IC try to set account info is just
a waste, IMHO.
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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.
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Uhm, that calms me down a bit; but I am still paranoid, my solution is
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going on 600000 CDs today, so it would be a real disaster if something
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silly like this "File IC_template not found" on some machines; or any
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other kind of error that I forgot handling for, due to that I'm not
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really an AS guy. -I've seen commercial AppleScript installers, and I've
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never got any of those to work; this is what's making me paranoid
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(together with text-paths). ;)
Well, I've had commercial installers do SO many stupid things that it's not
like there's a big difference ;-)
john
--
"I have not yet begun to fight."
- John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard),Sept. 1779
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