At 10:36 PM -0500 01/15/2006, Bill Spencer wrote:
1) Not only do I have a new ISP (Earthlink rather than Comcast), but
I have signed up for my alumni group's email service so I can have
just one email address essentially forever...so when I have to
change again someday I can just notify them rather than everyone.
But, in dealing with this list (and others like it that I might
join), I am confused about how to participate. That "accommodation"
address isn't an ISP, so when I create a message like this one it's
coming not from my subscribed accommodation address but from the
ISP. Wouldn't the receiving system reject it as being not a
subscribed address? Is there a way around this?
It's common to use your ISP's SMTP server to send emails, with a 3rd
party Reply-To/From address. Then you read the email from that 3rd
party's POP3 server. IF your ISP blocks this, then either the 3rd
party will have to supply you with SMTP service or your ISP will have
to unblock it (most are willing; it's just a filter to block
spammers).
2) When I reconfigured Mail to use the new ISP servers, I lost
everything in the Inbox and the Sent box. I had thought everything
had been downloaded from Comcast and was safely on the local HD, but
apparently not? Comcast said this is a problem with Mail and I am
out of luck. Ideas. comments, sympathy, Scotch anyone?
hum. Not good. Comcast is right -- they only do POP3 (not IMAP), so
all your email is on your HD. If Apple Mail tossed it, you're SOL
unless you have good backups. Maybe Apple Mail just lost track of
it? Check in ~/Library/Mail
I really dislike Apple Mail, so someone else will have to chime in
with specifics.
3) My wife, when she deigns to use email at all, uses Outlook
Express in Classic rather than Mail (though I hope to get her
migrated soon). Will the same thing happen to her, or does OE handle
messages differently?
What you've described should never happen.
I've never heard of it happening in OE.
...Make sure you're just changing the server addresses, not actually
deleting the whole account and creating a new one. I'm thinking that
a delete command might be understood by the mail apps as destroying
things...
4) I just tried resending a message to folks about this email change
but got an error message saying something about configuring Mail to
use authentication. But I don't see anything about that in Mail's
prefs; I have stuck in the various servers and passwords but maybe
that's not enough? Individual messages work fine but distribution
lists seem to do this. What's up there? Actually, further to #1
above, I am in fact sending this message from the Earthlink webmail
page since I cannot send anything right now using Mail, though I can
receive.
There's a checkbox to turn on authenticaton.
5) Similar to #2, when someone gets an email from me from here on,
will they see the Earthlink address or the accommodation address?
And if they reply, will it go to the accommodation address, which is
what I would like to have happen? Again, that's the point of the
accommodation address, it seems to me.
The message will have the From address you set.
The headers will reflect where it actually came from.
6) Ever since I moved to Panther recently Classic has been very
moody about launching. Sometimes it's fine but oftentimes it hangs
near the end and will not finish loading. I just repaired
permissions after installign Earthlink's software, to no avail. More
ideas etc.?
Classic is probably tight on memory. I think there's a setting in
the preference pane for this.
HTH,
- Dan.
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