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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

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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Ron Clarke 
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