Apologies for the low-information header, but I'm asking this for someone I'm trying to convert, & I'm not sure myself what he's asking <G>.
Please respond on-list or to me directly & I'll forward replies to him. Thanks :-) Deborah I'm using The Bat! Version 1.60m Serial Number UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 and would like to obtain some more information about your program I have installed the trial version of "The Bat!" on my laptop machine, and have a query regarding the ability to have a set of mail transport (SMTP & POP3) settings for (what I have titled) a "local" connection, and a "remote" connection, that point to the same set of physically-stored mailboxes on my hard drive. That is, when I am "docked" at my office, I wish to connect to our LAN's mail server (proxy) to send & receive e-mails. The SMTP & POP3 mailbox addresses are (the same) IP addresses on our LAN. The machine that hosts the mail server proxy software connects to our ISP on a regular basis and deposits my e-mails into a number of mailboxes for my collection on an ad-hoc basis (all mirrored in my e-mail client). I can also send e-mail on an ad-hoc basis, and this is stored on the LAN-based machine (our "server") until the machine makes another dial-up connection when e-mail is sent to our ISP's SMTP server. When I am out on the road, I wish to connect to our ISP via Windows-XP dial-up networking, but send and receive e-mails via the same set of physical mailbox files on my hard drive. For example, I have three mailboxes; "a", "b", and "c", that each connect to our mail proxy server when "docked" in our office and receive stored messages from, and send newly created messages to, our LAN-based machine file repository. The same three mailboxes are also used to send/receive e-mail whilst I am out of our office and so it is necessary to be able to view and maintain the same set of messages at both "locations". Although I have not put the following suggestion into practice as yet, I believe that I can create two groups, "local" and "remote", for instance, and then define an "Administrator" to associate a set of (three) mailbox accounts each with our local SMTP/POP3 settings and point to three individual mailbox files on my laptop's hard drive. If my understanding is correct, I can also create three other mailbox accounts with differing SMTP/POP3 settings that also maintain the same three mailbox files on my hard drive, and these would be associated with my "remote" group. If I were to log-in to "The Bat!" as the "local" user group then I could send/receive e-mail to my office-based mail server using the three accounts that reference our LAN SMTP/POP3 IP address(es). If I were to log-in to "The Bat!" as the "remote" user group then I could send/receive e-mail to a dial-up server, as the mailboxes within the "remote" group reference our ISP's SMTP/POP3 addresses. Is my understanding correct? I can create my desired functionality very easily in "Microsoft Outlook" using "profiles". I can also reach the same goal via "Eudora Pro" by maintaining two differing "eudora.ini" files that I swap (according to the "location" in which I currently reside) prior to launching the "eudora.exe" application. Maybe "The Bat!" has external settings files that I can also manipulate in this way? ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
