Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-21 Thread Spike
Hello Bill McCarthy, On or about Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 18:33:20GMT -0400 (which was 5:33 PM in the tropics where I live) Bill McCarthy posted: BM> My last email client offered a global choice for concurrent or BM> sequential. A better approach is to choose at the account level. BM> That wa

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-21 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sat 21-Jun-03 4:48pm -0400, Spike wrote: > I believe Pegasus checks accounts sequentially, while TB! checks all > concurrently! My last email client offered a global choice for concurrent or sequential. A better approach is to choose at the account level. That way, as TB goes through the acc

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-21 Thread Spike
Hello choppystride, Friday, June 20, 2003, 3:45:37 PM, in a galaxy far, far away, choppystride wrote: c> Hello, c> My email provider provides an unlimted number of email boxes. I c> currently need to setup 24 for myself. Ouch! I thought my 16 on 12 different servers was extreme! c> I am havi

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-21 Thread ravi
>> Sorry Leif but this will not work. Cause 3 * 5 = 15. True - it would be impossible to set up a scheme with periodic checking where accounts never check at the same time. > At any rate, aliasing is the better solution for all but > the extreme purposes. I do the same - several aliases and one

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Daniel Rail
Hello choppystride, Friday, June 20, 2003, 7:52:44 PM, you wrote: DR>> I think this should be a short-term solution. And, that a more DR>> permanent solution be implemented in the next version of TB (1.63). In > Are you saying that Ritlabs is aware of this problem and that a > solution is near c

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Heinz, Friday, June 20, 2003, 3:45:16 PM, you wrote: HH> Sorry Leif but this will not work. Cause 3 * 5 = 15. So every 15 HH> minutes TB will then query 8 Accounts. 3 * 7 = 21 So every 21 HH> minutes TB will then query 8 Accounts. End so on. Yeah, that is true... I forgot about that. Thanks

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Daniel Rail
Hello Leif, Friday, June 20, 2003, 6:08:17 PM, you wrote: > One, for each account I would set the check messages every n minutes > to differing times. So one set of four mail accounts to check every 3 > minutes, another set every 5 minutes, 7, 11, 13, 17. I think this should be a short-term solut

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Heinz Hombergs
On Friday, June 20, 2003, 23:08:17 (-0600 GMT) Leif Gregory wrote: > One, for each account I would set the check messages every n minutes > to differing times. So one set of four mail accounts to check every 3 > minutes, another set every 5 minutes, 7, 11, 13, 17. > Since those are all prime numb

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Leif, Oh, forgot, just in case, here's how to get to the timed checking. Account / Properties / Options, Periodical checking every n minutes. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 1.63 Beta/10 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 on a Pentium 4 2GH

Re: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello choppystride, Friday, June 20, 2003, 2:45:37 PM, you wrote: c> Any suggestions to overcome this problem will be greatly c> appreciated. One, for each account I would set the check messages every n minutes to differing times. So one set of four mail accounts to check every 3 minutes, another

Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server

2003-06-20 Thread choppystride
Hello, My email provider provides an unlimted number of email boxes. I currently need to setup 24 for myself. I am having trouble retrieving mail from all my accounts at once (i.e. by using the "Tools -> Check Mail for All" command). The problem seems to be caused by the fact that my email prov