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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] OT: Arachne multiple email accounts (was: Help for a newbie)
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:43:14 +1100

Hi Greg,

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:07:19 +1030
"Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:30:42 +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> > I have been in a similar position - in fact I still have four
> > pay-by-the-hour
> > ISP accounts each with several email addresses. So, in practice, I use
> > only the
> > paid-for by the month ISP to log on to the internet, but I can access
> > each and
> > every one of my other email accounts (by POP3/SMTP) from the one
> > connection,
> > both in DOS (Arachne) and in BasicLinux (Sylpheed).
>
> That's a technique I have wanted to use with Arachne, but I couldn't see
> how to to work it. With sylpheed, it is obvious how to do it.

With Arachne, I set up multiple "personalities" with a profile (***.acn)
each, all the same except for the email server/account/username/password to
match each email address I have.
Then I edit mail.htm by adding a table of "personalities", with each one
linking to the corresponding ***.acn file. I can email you my (edited)
version of mail.htm off-list, if you would like to see what I mean.
So, by clicking on each "personality" in turn and downloading/answering
the email for each, I deal with ALL my different email accounts in a fairly
short time.

It isn't, perhaps, as elegant as with Sylpheed, but it does the job.

>
> > That way I don't use up any extra hours that I would have to pay for, but
> > I can
> > still make full use of the various mail servers.
>
> Exactly!

Yeah, that's what I thought. :)

Regards,
Ron

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