Christopher Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And it came to pass that wrote:
>
>> I have a POP3 server on which a number of members of my
>> family have accounts. I also read my mail on the same
>> system (it's a linux box) but I read my mail locally using
>> an MUA on the system itself.
>>
>> Thus there are POP3 accounts of the form:-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> and a *local* mail account of the form:-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>> Mozilla mail doesn't seem to be able to cope with this at
>> all!
>>
>> Firstly when John downloads his POP3 mail Jane's mail get's
>> downloaded too and Mozilla often reports that there's new
>> mail to John, even when he hasn't actually got any new
>> mail.
>>
>> Secondly Mozilla seems to think that Jim must have a POP3
>> mail box on the same system as John and Jane, if they try
>> to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla reports "no such
>> user"!
>>
>> Is there any way to tell Mozilla to treat all POP3 accounts
>> as entirely separate entities and not to assume that all
>> mail accounts on a domain are connected in some way?
>>
>
> It sound like you should set up a different profile for each
> family member instead of adding mail accounts to one profile.
> It would have the added benefit that you would only see your
> mail folders while in your profile.
>
Sorry, I didn't make it clear, each family member *does* have their
own profile. They do see only their own mail but mozilla seems to be
trying to be clever when downloading and when sending mail to other
accounts on the same domain.
That is to say:-
john has a mozilla profile
jane has a different mozilla profile
jim *doesn't* have a mozilla profile
When either john or jane downloads mail it would appear that mail for
the other also gets downloaded - this is confusing because the user
sees a message saying "new mail" but there isn't any visible because
it's for the other profile.
Even worse is that if either john or jane tries to send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mozilla gives an error message saying "jim: no such
user" (or something like that).
--
Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
