[arachne] Re: mail muddles

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3a. Install my LSPPPCFG package (with LSPPP, of course, version
    0.74, 1.00 or 1.01) then set your DNS addresses to "0.0.0.0" (don't
    change the BOOTP option). Should take you about 20 seconds.

3b. Save your revised configuration A.

3c. Load your alternative configuration, repeat (3a), this time using
    the "update" option. Should take you another 20 seconds.

3d. Save your revised configuration B.

Total time required ... about 1 minute (but why rush?;-).

Having done this, you can simply connect using configuration A,
then exist Arachne, switch to configuration B (or vice versa), restart
Arachne with the "-r" option, *without* having to hang-up and
reconnect.    :-)

My old web site at hypermart is defunct, but hasn't been zapped yet,
so if you're quick, you can still get LSPPPCFG and LSPPP 1.01 from :
http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Mayman [SMTP:gmone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:21 PM
> To:   ""@afree.freelists.org
> Subject:      [arachne] mail muddles
> 
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Is there a simple way of quickly and easily changing Arachne's
> mail setup for different providers without reloading the whole
> configuration?
> 
> I am a registered user of two different ISP services; let's call
> them ABC and XYZ.
> 
> For various reasons I wish to use one of them most of the time,
> but on occasions I may wish to use the other. So I have two
> configuration files, ABC.ACF and XYZ.ACF.
> 
> On startup, I run a batch file that allows me to choose which one
> of these to copy over ARACHNE.CFG before calling ARACHNE.BAT.
> 
> Both of these files have mail download commands of the form
>    POP3://name1:password1$mail.ABC.com.au
> and
>    POP3://name2:password2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> for shift-F3 and shift-F4 user defined hotkeys. This allows me
> to download mail from both ISP's mailboxes.
> 
> But writing and sending mail is not so easy. The outgoing
> messages will have the From: and ReplyTo: fields set according to
> whichever configuration is loaded.
> 
> Suppose for a start I am logged into provider ABC.
> 
> I download the mail from ABC and XYZ and I find a message in the
> XYZ lot from one of the lists that I am subscribed to under that
> address.
> 
> I want to reply to the message ***WHILE I AM STILL ON LINE***!
> And because it is from a list where I am subscribed only with the
> XYZ address, I need to be sure the From: and ReplyTo: fields show
> the XYZ email address, not the ABC one.
> 
> Neither of these fields is editable in the Message Compose
> screen. The Modify screen on the reply allows editing of the
> ReplyTo: field, but _NOT_ the From: field.
> 
> I believe it is the From: field that is checked by the list
> server against its index of subscribers before mail is accepted.
> 
> POSSIBLE WAYS AROUND THIS:
> 
> 1. Load an alternate profile: Press hotkey "D" to get the dialler
>    page, click on profiles and load the XYZ profile. This will
>    load the email parameters for the XYZ address, but it will
>    also load the XYZ's NameServers and a whole lot of other
>    things that could affect my connection to the ABC provider.
> 
>    I can't see any easy solution to this except to use four profiles:
>       a. ABC internet setup with ABC email setup
>       b. ABC internet setup with XYZ email setup
>       c. XYZ internet setup with ABC email setup
>       d. XYZ internet setup with XYZ email setup
> 
>    If I had subscribed to three ISPs, this would expand to NINE
>    profiles, and so on. Very messy, especially if I happen to
>    forget which profile is loaded.
> 
> 2. Make a new connection: The only practical alternative to the
>    above that I can see is to disconnect from the ABC provider,
>    load the XYZ profile, and dial out to the XYZ provider. This
>    is not always convenient, although it is foolproof.
> 
> But there must be an easier way....
> 
> Greg
> 
> Arachne at FreeLists
> -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --

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