Re: newsgroup, profile

Hi

Bit pointless worrying about news.ecomstation.com/nl as that news server 
is dead and unlikely to return.

Regards

Pete


[email protected] wrote:
> ** 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.
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>  You can add what you wish. The next 10 people will have much smaller profiles than you, and all are functional
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>> 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 :-)
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>  copied to  news.ecomstation.com seems reasonable.
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