A more advanced user can hack the thing, but for most users, this isn't
what comes to mind. Although you can do it this way or even just
transferring your e-mail to the new account which isn't a big deal
either, it's still a bit lame that users have to do this in the first
place.
Oh well.
Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pratik Solanki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've done this before. I had to change the POP server and I managed to
> do it by changing the prefs.js file and the directory structure. The was
> I did it then (about 3-4 months ago) was to change all places where
> 'pop.oldserver' was written to 'pop.newserver' in the prefs.js file. I
> then changed the name of the folder in Mail directory from pop.oldserver
> to pop.newserver. That worked for me.
>
> Looking at the prefs.js file, I think you should be able to get away
> with just changing the following line.
>
> user_pref("mail.server.serverx.hostname", "pop.oldserver");
>
> to
>
> user_pref("mail.server.serverx.hostname", "pop.newserver");
>
> - Pratik.
>
> DISCLAIMER - Not responsible if doing the above makes your account
> unusable or deletes all your mails or crashes Mozilla, etc. etc.
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > I was reading the bug thread on this one, and I think the gist of the
> > conversation between the Mozilla folks was that it would require some
> > solid rework on that and related components while not being that big of
> > a deal for the user to get around (by creating a new account.)
