Re: self deleting email

From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:55:07 -0400

"Ken Halter" wrote:
> Unlike OE, you can have multiple instances running. That's one
> feature I've seen requests for (in OE). I'm not really interested
> in that feature. Once in a while I end up with a couple instances
> running by accident (mailwasher and clumsy fingers are the
> culprit). No harm done.. it just takes more room on the taskbar.

I haven't thought of running multiple instances, but that would be
nice to separate the newsgroup reader from the mail reader so
they can keep a different folders.dbx.

Microsoft has fixed OE somewhat in respect to the folders.dbx,
whereby if you deleted it, you used to have to resubscribe to
the newsgroups and download everything all over again, but
that has been fixed. OE seems to peruse the mail folder now,
to get the names to the subscribed newsgroups, or perhaps
reads it from another location now.

The only other way I can see what I want achieved is for OE
to make two folders.dbx files, one for the newsgroups and
one for the email. That way the newsreader folders.dbx could
be deleted and that would be a blessing, because if there's a
power outage while downloading stuff, that particular folder
can easily be corrupted. Maybe someone from Microsoft
will look into this. I'm sure the guys that set up OE will
know exactly what I'm talking about.

> The one drawback (so far) is that it doesn't currently support
> multiple newsgroup accounts on the same server. In OE, I
> had one msnews acct where I subscribed to VB Classic
> groups only. I had another where I subscribed to "other"
> groups. Can't do that in Thunderbird.

Microsoft does have two DNS names for their newsreaders.
Both names seem to point to the same server:

news://news.microsoft.com
news://msnews.microsoft.com

And as Bob Butler indicated, Thunderbird should be able to
handle that, I would think. They provide the source code but
I haven't really looked into it. I think it's written in C/C++.

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7rc3/src/mozilla-source-1.7rc3.tar.bz2

The second link is the link to the latest VC source code. The first is the
page containing the second link. The latest release is dated June 8th,
2004, in case you didn't know there was a new release. 

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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