On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Tannis Baker wrote:
How do you obtain the unofficial patches like the 2.0v3p3 patch?
Is this
the newest patch?
You can get several patches and scripts (some of which are really
useful)
at:
http://www.mythtech.net/emailer/
Look under Emailer Apps Mod for patches.
Chris, who built the patches, is still lurking on this list - but has
moved onto Mail. He may have some advice as to using the patches.
Not much advice, I can just give a run down of what each of the
patches do.
First, they are all cumulative, so p2 contains the changes in p1, and
p3 contains both p1 and p2.
p1 adds support for multiple @ signs in the email account field. This
is needed if your ISP requires you to use your full email address as
your email account. Emailer makes you combine the username and POP
server into one field in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if you
have an ISP that requires a full email address as the username, you
end up with [EMAIL PROTECTED]@popserver. Emailer won't accept this as it
will think the pop server is [EMAIL PROTECTED] which would be invalid.
Some ISPs allow you to substitute the first @ sign (the one in the
username), but not all do. With the p1 patch, Emailer parses that
field backwards, so it breaks the popserver at the last @ instead of
the first, thus allowing you to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a username.
p2 adds p1 (dual @), as well as reverses the SMTP and POP order when
you do a full Connect Now session. The normal behavior of Emailer is
to try to send email (SMTP) then collect email (POP). This is
perfectly fine. However, if your ISP requires email authentication,
and supports POP authentication (check email before sending email),
it is inconvenient to have Emailer do SMTP before POP as it means the
first SMTP attempt will fail (since it needs to be authenticated).
The p2 patch simply tells Emailer to check mail and then send mail.
That way, you POP authenticate automatically.
p3 adds p1 and p2 and adds SMTP Authentication using the Login
method. This is good if your ISP requires authentication and does not
support POP authentication. It only does Login method (which is
fairly widely supported). Also, it can only use the username and
password that are stored as part of the account for the POP
connection. That means you must be able to authenticate to the mail
server using that combo or it won't work. This is fine for most
people, but it does fail for people that have multiple email accounts
and are trying to send them all using the same mail server. Some
people have created work arounds by making custom send only account
entries that use the correct POP username and password, but have
their alternate email address as the return address. Also, the SMTP
Authentication is all or nothing. You can't turn it on for only
certain accounts. That means all your email accounts that you plan to
send from must support SMTP Authentication, and must support using
the same username and password as your POP account.
Also, in addition to the changes listed above, all 3 versions have
the Emailer Custom Settings patch pre-installed. The only change that
makes in its default mode is Emailer will use the Email Address field
as the Mail From info in the mail envelope instead of using the Email
Account field. This is the current standard convention with email and
is what mail server's today are expecting. Some mail servers (notably
Apple's Mac.com) will reject email if the Mail From envelope address
is different then the address used in the headers, thus this change
is important. It harms nothing if your mail server doesn't care, and
since it is the accepted standard form, it is actually better to use
it this way.
I also don't actually recommend downloading the patches and
installing them, as the patch install program doesn't always work
correctly. Rather you should download the pre-patched application
files and drop them into your Emailer folder (do not delete your
original unpatched Emailer, just rename it). No need to do any other
changes, simply running the patched version will automatically pick
up your prefs, mail database, and all other settings.
There are some various Port 587 versions in that App Mods folder as
well. Those change the SMTP port Emailer uses to port 587 instead of
the normal port 25. This is only used if your ISP requires you to
send over port 587 or you have some other reason for doing so. I
think there are only two versions, a normal unpatched Emailer using
port 587 and a p3 patched version for port 587.
And finally, all patched versions, and all patches, are only for the
PPC Only version of Emailer, so they will not work on 68k machines
(68040 and older).
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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