29 Sep
2004
29 Sep
'04
7:58 p.m.
Hi Roger,
Are you talking about "Eudora Pro 3"? - if so, I have a legit copy, but I
didn't try it yet because the manual shows just a "POP3 account" field in
the host setup - I need a separate "incoming mail host" field, and the
POP3 username must be able to contain am "(a)xxx.yyy" which is DIFFERENT
from the configured host (it gets sent as part of the
login string
apparently).
Do you know if Eudora3 actually supports such a misconfigured server
setup?
Original Message:
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From: Roger Merchberger zmerch(a)30below.com
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:06:44 -0400
To: dave04a(a)dunfield.com, cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Email client for older machines? (need help)
Rumor has it that dave04a(a)dunfield.com may have mentioned these words:
Hi Guys,
I know this is a OT, but I could really use some help, and I figure
this group is the most likely to be using a setup similar to mine...
My ISP has just "upgraded" their email server to be completely incompatible
with my client - basically the POP server cannot not be determined from
the POP account name anymore, and since my ancient client "figures out"
the server from the account name, it cannot connect.
Can anyone recommend a decent/simple email program that runs under either
DOS or Window3 (NOT win32!!!) that has the ability to let you specify a
incoming mail server separate from the POP account?
This one should do it:
http://www.eudora.com/email/archive/pro_email3/
If not, try here:
http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_winpmail.htm
(you'll have to search thru all the 32-bit shiznit to get to the 16-bit
schtuff -- scroll down near the bottom...)
They still have a DOS version, as well.
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
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30 Sep
30 Sep
1:46 a.m.
At 01:58 30/09/2004, you wrote:
Hi Roger,
Are you talking about "Eudora Pro 3"? - if so, I have a legit copy, but I
didn't try it yet because the manual shows just a "POP3 account" field in
the host setup - I need a separate "incoming mail host" field, and the
POP3 username must be able to contain am "(a)xxx.yyy" which is DIFFERENT
from the configured host (it gets sent as part of the login string
apparently).
Do you know if Eudora3 actually supports such a misconfigured server
setup?
Using the full username@hostname email address as a POP3 account name is
quite common among some ISPs and hosting companies; it simplifies things
considerably (form their point of view) when hosting many domains on one
server, and avoids customer questions like "Why am I robert3812 when
there's only one Robert on my domain?".
The old versions of Eudora are quite odd in their account setup, simply
asking for a POP account in the form xxxx@yyyy where xxxx is the actual
account name as sent to the POP3 server, and yyyy is the address of the
server. (Later versions separate out the fields properly.)
ISTR, if your POP3 account name is actually, for example, "dave(a)xxx.yyy"
and your POP3 server is, say "mail.some.isp", the syntax for the Eudora
account field is:
dave@xxx.yyy@mail.some.isp - this looks wrong, but works.
(I have some odd recollections about replacing the first @ with a %, but it
was some time ago I last used an old version of Eudora, and I might be
confusing myself with the way Demon (UK ISP) allowed you to extract
multiple mailboxes out of a single POP3 account by manipulating the account
name.)
HTH,
Rob.
7:02 a.m.
At 01:46 AM 9/30/2004, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
(I have some odd recollections about replacing the
first @ with a %, but it was some time ago I last used an old version of Eudora, and I
might be confusing myself with the way Demon (UK ISP) allowed you to extract multiple
mailboxes out of a single POP3 account by manipulating the account name.)
Many present-day virtual hosting servers use the same trick.
I also have recollections of tweaking old-Eudora's settings
by editing the text files directly as opposed to using the
user interface.
Eudora remains pleasantly text-based under the hood to
this day; right now on the bench I'm setting up a nifty
dual-CPU Mac G5 and transferring the user's Eudora
mailboxes and all their settings from Windows to OS X
without a hitch.
- John
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