Re: newsgroup, profile

** Reply to note from [email protected] Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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> As Salaam Aleikum! Can the old profile be migrated to the new one "Brekke" which will live  on r:\mozilla.org\org in stages? Why She asks is that there
> are a hell  of lines under the "Helper Appplications" So could She tick off the  prefs that comes before this section, click OK on the new profile so it  will
> be saved/created under the name "Brekke". Then close down SMPMW118,  open the old prefs.js in e.exe and likewise open the new prefs.js and  just
> copy & paste over the items related to the Helper apps, save the  new prefs.js. Then fire up SMPMW118 with the old profile and another  instance with
> the new profile and tick off the rest which are required.

 You can add what you wish. The next 10 people will have much smaller profiles than you, and all are functional
   
> Btw, in the Mail & Newsgroups part, you only declare which newsservers  She will use, i.e. nntp.ecomstation.com and the one for  news.mozilla.org. For
> the last there probably are just two files, one  for the messages and a corresponding .msf file, but how is it with the  ecomstation newsgroups?
> Discovered that the newsgroups was placed in  news.ecomstation-1.com instead of news.ecomstation.com. So could the  files under
> news.ecomstation-1.com just be copied to  news.ecomstation.com. She thinks that this misplacement of the  news.ecomstation.com made the
> newsgroups unavailable for the mailer.  dev.ports.os2.mozilla.com works just fine, thank you :-)

 copied to  news.ecomstation.com seems reasonable.

        Cal