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Erkki K Kangas

Hello Charles

I've been reading your columns for awhile now.

I read the mail from Pj Little and I'm sure that I didn't understand him right. As I've been using OS X Mail since 10.0.3. I've always been able to set up multiple email accounts, all from different ISP's. I now got only four active accounts, all from differents ISP's. So I must have misunderstood Pj Little.

Since 10.2 Mail even recognices that I'm using my mobile as a GPRS modem and suggest using it's outgoing mail server instead of the normal mail servers.

So for me, OS X Mail is good enough.

Erkki K Kangas

PS the mail about iBook was interesting as I just ordered one for my son.

Erkki K Kangas

Pori, Finland

Hi Erkki;

Mail is a good email application, and I'm happy that Apple chose to For more information, visit: with mbox archive files.

Hoewver, I'm an old Eudora dog, and I've never found any other email client as intuitive or that fit my needs quite as well. That may just be because I'm so accustomed to it.

I think your son will be very happy with the G4 iBook.

Charles

PJ's e-mail question and a comment

From Tony Schaps

Regarding Pj Little's request for help finding an e-mail client with which he can "configure multiple accounts from multiple sources on the same email client plus add and edit the sources (ISP) as needed," the answer is your preferred client as listed in your 'roundup:' Eudora Pro.

I have been using it for many years now, have only had to pay to upgrade it once since the original purchase, and I have approximately 30 'personalities' defined for all the various domains I own and web sites I manage. The configuration of a personality in the current versions allows completely separate domain settings for unlimited e-mail accounts, or also allows you to designate a "relay personality" for when you are on the road and have to send all your mail through one server. It even allows each personality to have its own authorization and SSL settings if you have need or ability.

Eudora isn't perfect, but its ability to do exactly what he is looking for is the reason I have stayed with it for seven years.

By the way, in your roundup summary of Eudora, you state: "...SMTP Relay Personality which lets you send all your mail through one account.... I tried it and it works, but the ISP host email account goes out as the return address, which limits its usefulness."

That is not my experience, and I just did some more tests to confirm. The header shows the path (obviously) through my relay personality server and sometimes the Authid (login ID for the relay server), but my "From:" address is intact, and there is no "reply-to" header added. I have changed my .Mac com personality to relay for this e-mail to you, so you can see for yourself.

I just found your site a few weeks ago. Like it a lot.

Regards,

Tony

Hi Tony;

That's what I thought too. I currently have 13 personalities configured in Eudora.

Unfortunately, I have not been successful in getting the Relay Personality feature to coax my ISP's SMTP server into sending mail with return addresses other than its own.

Glad you like Applelinks!

Charles

Menubar Utility!

From Ahmad Boutaiban

Greetings Mr. Moore,

I'd like to know this menubar utility that you are using, its the 2nd right from Preferences Menu, with the shape of a mouse or car foot-print?

Thank you so much for your time reading my e-mail, appreciate it sir.

Keep up the good work,

Ahmad.

Hi Ahmad;

Did you mean cat footprint (r and t keys are adjacent)? Anyhow, it's a cat, or tiger -- TigerLaunch, an application launcher utility for OS X.

TigerLaunch adds a little Tiger icon to the OS X menu bar, with a configurable pull-down menu listing the contents of your Applications Folder. You can exclude applications and utilities from appearing in the menu by unchecking their titles in the configure dialog.

TigerLaunch is convenient, unobtrusive, and does what it's intended to do it well.

TigerLaunch is freeware/donationware

You can find it here:

http://ranchero.com/tigerlaunch/

Charles

Apple official weighs in on 15-in. PowerBook problem, laptop successes

From Eric Matthieu

[url=http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,86802,00.
html]Picked up on this story over at MacNN.[/url] Wondered if you'd heard about it...

For anyone speculating about a G5 PBook...

> "We certainly want to do that," he said. "But it's going to be a while. We

> think the G4 has a very long life in the PowerBook."

Overall, the article is pretty interesting - particularly for PBook and

iBook aficionados.

Warm regards,

Eric

Hi Eric;

Thanks for the heads-up. I had noticed the headline, but hadn't read the article yet. As you say, an interesting lookout for 'Book fans. More comment in Moore's News Roundup Digest today.

This is just speculative deduction on my part, but I think the next generation IBM 750 chip after the 750GX, which is preedicted to have a vector engine, could figure in that G4 future.

Charles

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