Chris Dolan wrote:
> I use Mozilla mail/news on my laptop both at work and at home. I have
> an news account which is only available via my home ISP (dialup). When
> I'm at work, I am prompted to login to this account each time I start
> Mozilla, but I know it will be blocked from that network anyway. Is
> there a way to do one of the following:
>
> 1) disable autoconnect to an account (only try to connect when I click a
> newsgroup)
> 2) manually disable an account temporarily
> 3) any other ideas?
>
> Note that I have "check for new mail on startup" set for my IMAP
> account, but there does not seem to be a comparable setting for news
> servers. I have "check for new messages every X minutes" disabled for
> that news account.
>
> Please reply by email (and CC newsgroup, of course)
>
> Thanks very much!
> Chris
>
Make sure the news server thread is CLOSED/COLLAPSED "before" you close
Mozilla. If the thread is left open it will attempt to contact the
server upon startup to post the unread/total message count for each group.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
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