Re(6): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
Re(6): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- Subject: Re(6): (OT) Outlook Express email setup
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:21:42 +0100
Hi John,
On Thu, 2 May, 2002, John C. Welch <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.
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IC should stay the hell out of my email setup. Default email application?
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Sure. Default servers? Okay. But accounts That's just dumb. I'm not that
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thrilled with the servers, but most folks only use a single ISP from home at
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least. I'm admittedly insane here. Having IC try to set account info is just
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a waste, IMHO.
OK, whatabout removing these features from Internet Config then..
We could create a new API and a control panel called "Email Account Config".
Would that solve the problem ?
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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). ;)
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Well, I've had commercial installers do SO many stupid things that it's not
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like there's a big difference ;-)
To me there is. I do *not* provide software that doesn't work. I *WILL
NOT* put my name on it!
Love,
Jens
--
Jens Bauer, Faster Software.
-Let's make the World better, shall we ?
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