And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>>And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
>>
>>>>If that's your idea of a "solution", then the actual
>>>>solution is to use an email client that works properly.
>>>>
>>>I don't think such comments are helpful. Esp. if you are
>>>wrong.
>>>
>>But I'm hardly EVER wrong.
>>
> No comment :).
>
>>I'm not wrong now - Mozilla Mail has
>>a flaw that needs to be addressed.
>>
> Fact is that, last time I checked, I found no Windows email
> client other than Outlook Express that had (decent) support
> for multiple POP/IMAP accounts.
>
> ("decent", because either Eudora or Pegasus had a gross hack
> to support mutiple POP boxes, and Messenger 4.x can use
> mutiple profiles.)
Hacked? Pegasus installed easily, and flawlessly checks my
five POP accounts, and I can do it from one profile, and I can
have as many identities as I like using the same login without
jumping through arcane hoops.
>
> So the fact alone that there is a possibility to have
> multiple identities (with fake POP accounts, which is not
> *too* hard to figure out) is positively outstanding.
IF it were intuitive to use, which it's not.
>
>>a new approach, and you seem to forget that PEOPLE are going
>>to be using this product eventually, and PEOPLE don't want
>>to have to outwit their software to make it do what they
>>need.
>>
> Don't argue with *me*. I was the one who filed the RFE bug
> to implement this feature. Netscape decided that it doesn't
> want it, so it gets no development resources. Dunno, if
> they'd accept a patch.
>
>>Note that including the bit about faking the ID in the Help
>>file would count as "addressing the problem."
>>
> Which help file? :-)
>
>>OR you could do what many other clients do
>>
> Maybe you want to tell us which other email clients are so
> great? (see above)
I am referring specificaly to Pegasus, despite your poo-pooing
it. It does everything Mozilla Mail is supposed to do, but it
does them easier. (except for the address books - I hate the
address books in 3.12)
Password protection for different profiles
Profiles can be changed without closing program.
Multiple POP support
Checks multiple POP accounts
will display new messages in a single Inbox
Has several options for new message notification
Filtering
allows for a seperate SMTP account for each identity
has the choice to validate SMTP by POP authentication
has the choice to use a dialler
has the choice to hang up.
The best helper application interface I've seen yet.
The headers are in the message body where they belong, not in
that #$&*%^!! bar. ;-)
AND it has an export function. Something SORELY lacking in
Mozilla/Netscape 6.
I am told that the Bat also has these features, but it's not
freeware.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
"Remember, there's nothing bad that happens that isn't somehow
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