🚀 go-pugleaf

On 12 Mar 97 00:44:40 G, Gary Priest wrote:
> In article <858029940_OASIS_@bahai.demon.co.uk>
>  Terry@bahai.demon.co.uk () wrote:-
>
>>I have just downloaded newsie 0.69 and it seems to be a very good replacement
>>for Oasis as it has several features that I need, anyway can anyone tell me how
>>to connect to my POP3 account with newsie as I have tried the following:-
>>
>>1) telnet to password.demon.co.uk and set up my POP3 password
>>2) wait (demon said 15mins but I gave it 24Hrs)
>>3) set up my email address,name etc
>>4) set up SMTP to 'post.demon.co.uk' in newsie server setup
>>5) set up POP3 to 'pop3.demon.co.uk'
>>6) select check mail
>>7) type pop3 password when prompted
>>
>>Newsie then tries to connect and tells me 'password invalid'
>>
>>8) select get mail gives similar
>>
>>can anyone help, does POP3 work OK on demon for us poor atarians?  
>
>Newsie does not work with Demon accounts for retrieving email.
>The latest versions of Newsie work fine for news, but email is a definate no
>no!!
>
>The problem is that newsie decides that the 'user' is 'gary' instead of
>'the-gap' (in my case). Of course, this is totally wrong in Demon's case.
>
>All I can suggest is, email John and tell him that you want to use Newsie
>for email with your Demon account. If enough people pester him on it, then
>I'm sure he'll concede and change it. IMHO, it should be like antmail and
>have an actual 'user' field as opposed to *assuming* what the user is!!
>I suggested this to John, but he seems to think that this will confuse
>people :)
>
Can you change your email id in the Personal Options dialog to:
bahai@demon.co.uk    or
the-gap@demon.co.uk 
and then try the Check Mail or Get Mail?


As long as you don't save the prefs, this is just a temporary thing.
Also you could save a 'email.inf' to load before you get email, with 
the above email id instead of terry@hahai.demon.co.uk.
If this works, then its a stopgap until I can work something better.
Let me know if this works...
John
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