Re: Some newbie issues/questions

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:55:17 +0700
Syafril Hermansyah <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:16:58 -0500 Peter Davis (PD) wrote:
> 
> > 1) On my Win NT4 system, Sylpheed had no problem finding my mailboxes
> >     at D:\home\Mail, and using them as its folder tree.  However, on
> >     the Win 2000 machine, Sylpheed would *not* let me specify
> >     C:\home\Mail as the mail location, although that's where all my MH
> >     folders are.  It *did* let me specify /cygdrive/c/home/Mail, but
> >     it did not build the folder tree.  It just created a single empty
> >     mailbox.  This may have to do with Cygwin, although that's
> >     installed on both systems.  Anyone have any clues about this?
> 
> I am using W2k here, and I put all folder/messages on network drive, I
> set the registry as follow :
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sylpheed\HomeDir Reg_RZ M:\Sylpheed

I'll take a look at this.  Thanks!

> > 3) I have two sets of POP/SMTP servers: my own ISP and my work setup.
> > 
> >     On a related not, Sylpheed lets you set POP and SMTP servers, with
> >     a single username/password, on the "Basic" tab of the account
> >     setup.  It also lets you set a separate username/password on the
> >     "Send" tab.  I thought I could use this to use my work SMTP for
> >     both mail accounts.  However, Sylpheed seems always to use the
> >     username/password on the "Basic" tab, even if a different pair is
> >     specified on the "Send" tab.  So I could not even send mail that
> >     way.
> 
> I have no problem here while sending through SMTP which does not check
> credentials matching. Indeed in other SMTP which force the smtpauth
> force to use sender <address> must match credentials I can not do like
> that. Perhaps your SMTP server does have restriction like that.

Well, this is the ATTBI server, in case anyone's familiar with that.  I can't seem to guess what settings the SMTP server wants, although POP was easy.

> > 4) I like to leave messages on the POP server sometimes.  When I'm at
> >     work, I leave message on my home server, and vice versa.  Sylpheed
> >     seems to handle this well.  However, I'd like an option to
> >     selectively delete messages from the server when I delete them
> >     locally (so I don't have to see the same spam twice!).  I haven't
> >     found any way to do this.  Does Sylpheed have such a mechanism?
> 
> See Tools|Selective Download (shortcut Alt-S).

This is certainly interesting, though not exactly what I had in mind.  I was hoping for a way to download everything, and then automatically delete messages from the server if I delete them locally.  Still, I'll play around with this and see if it can server my purpose.

Thanks,

-pd




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