Re: Adding username to incoming mail server

And it came to pass that no_name wrote:

> Christopher Jahn <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:<[email protected]>... 
>> And it came to pass that no_name wrote:
>> 
>> > Is there way to automatically add the username to the
>> > incoming mail server name: <username>.mail.incoming.com
>> > using any of the *.js files or the mailaccount.rdf file?
>> 
>> Your question seems to be mis-stated, unless you really do
>> mean that you want to change the name of the server to
>> include your username, which makes no sense at all.
> 
> That is what I mean - <username>.mail.incoming.com.  I'm
> not the sysadmin for the mail server, I just install the
> software ;)  They are planning to incorporate the username
> into the user's incoming mail server setting.
> 
>> But if that is in fact what you mean, simply change the
>> name of the server in MAil and Newsgroup Account Settings.
> 
> We have 65,000 users.  Is there a way to do this when the
> user sets up the profile for the first time?  Outlook can
> do it using the *.prf file by using
> %username%.mail.incoming.com.  I'm looking for something 
> similar for NS7.
> 

So what you are saying is that your sysadmin wants to setup 
65,000 different servers?  I find that very hard to beleive.

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