[G4] .Mail App

[Steve Goldstein]

Roger, I don't know what to tell you.  I have FIVE mail accounts in  
Mail.app, and four of them are all using the same servers.  All are  
POP accounts.  The fifth is a gmail account, and it uses SSL and the  
whole nine yards!

On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Roger Harris wrote:

> Steve, the problem I have with Mail is, Mail refuses to create the  
> second account. It refuses because the second account uses the same  
> server as the main account. If the second account was on a  
> different server Mail would let me create the second account; it  
> would work.
>
> Account "A" is on server: mail.appleisp.net.
>
> Account "B" has the same server: mail.appleisp.net
>
> When trying to create the second account a message comes up saying  
> there is already an account using "mail.appleisp.net"

Happily, I never faced this problem when setting up my accounts.

> I have had these same accounts running in earlier versions  
> of .mail; But mail was crap then.

It still is no great shakes!  But, unlike Thunderbird, I could at  
least import most of my stuff from Eudora, including addresses.  I  
could not do that in Thunderbird, at least not several months ago.  I  
also imported a good many of my messages from Eudora, though for some  
unknown reason, many of them were empty.

> It is also easy to set these up in Thunderbird. I want to use .Mail  
> if I can because it is synced with Apples other applications and  
> can sync to other macs of mine at other locations through .Mac.
>
> What always surprises me with .Mail is that it is not very user  
> friendly;

Agreed.  And, quirky!

> Thunderbird can be setup by a monkey; and is very flexible. Mail  
> always has many many "Got Ya's" for an Apple application that has  
> be around for years.


--Steve