On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:28:46 -0400 chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Subject: Dual @ patch > >I asked a few people to test my hack, a few said they would... one person >replied with a result. <sigh> > >Well, going with the one person's positive response, and my own testing >to the degree that I could, I am going to release this patch to the wild. > >This patch will cause Emailer to parse the username and pop server >starting from the end of the email account field rather than the front. > >"Who cares" you all are asking? Anyone that needs a full email address as >the username, that's who. Notice the growing trend of people needing to >do that? And more and more of them can't use some other character to get >around it. Well, install this patch, and the problem goes away. > >That's the good news. > >Here's the bad news. This patch was made by manually hacking Emailer. >Lots of time testing and messing and crashing. It appears to be working >and appears to be stable. However, I have no clue what else I might have >affected in the process. Maybe nothing, maybe something important. For >all I know I broke other parts of Emailer while doing this. So if you >want to use this patch, you use it entirely at your own risk. You have >been warned. > >To get the patch, you can download it from my FTP site at ><ftp://ftp.mythtech.net/emailer/patch1.sit> > >This patch was created with the US English, PPC Native Only, 2.0v3 >version of Emailer. I don't have a clue if it will work with other >versions. > >Also, as a note, for some odd reason, I can't get the patch to install on >my OS 9.1 computer. It works fine in OS X with 9.2.2 in Classic, and >works fine in 9.0.4. I don't know if the problem is with my 9.1 computer, >or with ResCompare not working with 9.1 (the error is generated by >ResCompare). I'd be interested to hear if anyone gets it to install under >9.1.
Seems I'm the one who replyed with positive result 8�) and I've been using the patched version for the last two days for all my email, without any problems. As for the bad news, I've tried both of chris's patches, using Mac OS 9.1 DK, with success, and with pacth 2, I'm now able to send email using my until now troublesome account ! My vote for a "Emailer Hacker" honoris causa to chris Mogens Thyregod [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
