questions on set up of netscape mail

Hello Ramona and Westside, Thanks for all your help previously. I finally got this machine stripped out (all but 4.75) and 7.2 to install. I also installed the Norton Internet Security 2005 prog and am still "training it ".

I'm not crazy about the way it can "lock up" mail file but to my way of thinking, it means maintaining my mail better. I also found from Ramona's links she provided information on recovering them. I set Norton to ask before doing anything.

OK, so much for that, but the maintanence issue has developed a couple of questions.

I had copied out and was maintaining my mail files on D and had my 4.75 installation directed to it. 7.2 found that and mapped to them (sort of). But they were somewhat convoluted and have now created a better directory structure for them. In the process of preparing for stripping I made several copies of my pop3.<ispname>.com file. All but the current one I plan to delete.

Netscape 7.2 actually took my old one that 4.75 was mapped to, added a subdirectory, naming it pop3.<ispname>.com5, added a mail subdirectory and a new pop3.<ispname>.com under it. It is the currently active file. The path is D:\7.1 netscape mail\pop3.<ispname>.com5\Mail\pop3.<ispname>.com.

Now I created a new directory called Netscape-Mail 7.2 and copied the active pop3... file to it, renamed it by adding archive and 11-04. I did the same for the Local Folders.

I now created another direct copy of the active (meaning currently mapped) pop3.<ispname>.com to this new directory (Netscape-Mail 7.2) and am attempting to set Netscape to it. I did it in 4,75, but 7.2 doesn't seem to let be brouse for a new file. Once it is set, I'll delete all the mail that was archived, and start over ... eventually... once a month or so, it too will be archived by copying and renaming. It appears to me that I have to create a new account but in trying to without deleteing the current one creats an error.

Maybe thats not the way. Where can I tell Netscape mail to store its mail (not just the sent and drafts etc. There does not appear to be a way to repath it.

What I want to do is control precisely where Netscape stores its mail, mailbox directories (well sort of... their actually part of the pop3.<ispname>.com file) and sent copies. I will then periodically archive them by copying and renaming (say once a month). We get a lot of mail on varying subjects and we create their own subdirectories... ok "folders" for you young people, (within the main mail file) for them and moving them out of the inbox.

So how to do that? Do I need a new "account" setup... or a new "profile ", or what? I do not understand the "profile" nor what all it contains.

Can anyone (Ramona?) enlighten me as to how to set this up?

Thanks,

Dave
Hillsboro, Ohio

 

Hi Dave,

You can move your Mail anywhere on your HDD. The pointer for the Mail in Netscape 7.2 is located here:

Open Mail & Newsgroups, then click on:
Edit | Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings | Server Settings
In the right panel scroll down to "Local directory "
That field should point to the path to your Mail Account folder
Click on the "Browse" button to find the correct path

Let us know if you have further questions.

Ramona

 

Huh???

Must be me, but the directions do not work on here (win98SE OS on this machine.... maybe you thought XP?)

But in the mail and news group page... the Mail and News Group Account Settings are not under "file ", but under "edit" (maybe due to "classic skin "?). And under it clicking on "server settings" shows a "Local Folder" at the bottom on the right pane, but nothing associated with it... no buttons... no path shown... no nothing.

Under "Copies and Folders" it shows all the stuff for the sent,drafts,and templates but not the main folder.

I did find a way since I posted the original question by editing the prefs.js file and manually editing the paths shown that matched where it was going originally. It seems to be functioning fine... but just in case, I'll reset to the backed-up prefs.js and see if it shows the path info in the pane you speak of. Maybe its having trouble with my edit... although is simply storing a string variable for the path.

Thanks again...
Dave

 

No change

I switched back to the original prefs.js but other than calling up a different mail file (i.e pop3.<ispname>.com... I'll keep a holder file in its original location so switching back has something to get).

The server settings pane with the "Local Directory" is no different. Shows nothing.... although a keyboard numonic seems present due to the underscored "L" in "Local" but I cant seem to find how to execute it. The old "Alt-L" didn't, but its not a dropdown... so really didn't expect it to. Not sure how their diolog box numonics are set up.

"Numonics "... Yea, have to watch out for us dinosaurs now... used to make an old Lotus 2.4 with WYSIWYG sit up and do tricks with the macros and no mouse in the world could keep up with my keyboard. Screens just flashed by... irritating those watching to see how I did some things... ahhh gee, thats just too bad. Their still faster than the mouse if one takes the time to learn them. Oh well, I'll get off the box and let someone else BS a while.

Smile... its healthy!
Dave.

 

Dave,

The Local directory field is blank, no Browse button on the right of the field? That is definitely a first! Yes, I do know that the way to Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings is through Edit, and only excuse is not enough coffee yet!

Ramona

 

Leave it to me to find a first...

but thats right... no path shown and no brouse button.

Five possibilities come to my mind. None of which are good. The first is a bad install? I'd REALLY hate to do the whole strip and reinstall thing AGAIN!

The second is something interfering from the Norton IS. REALLY don't want to do that again either... as it took three attempts to install.

The third is the video card/drivers. I'm using a "Mad Dog Multimedia" Prowler MX 440-SE 64M AGP 4x/2x by Nvidia. (runs 2x as thats the fastest this old MB can do.) I've had off and on issues with NVidia nViews before. But its the only card I could find that had Open GL and 2x. Most needed 4x. None of the new cards will work as they all want 4/8x when I looked recently.

Possible bad D drive. Net 7.2 is installed on C but the mail files are on D. On occasion I get a "write" error to it, but hardware tests find nothing. This unit also connects wierd ... on boot sometines it sees the 80 conductor ribbon and logs a connect at 66... othertime is doesn't see the 80, thinks its 40 and logs the connect at 33. Goes either way about half and half. A new 80 conductor cable didn't fix it, and the new round cables are 40 conductor. I really do not see this as the issue as the prefs and other workling files for Net7.2 are on C.
The fact that the drive is really not installed... it just lays in there (circuit board up and not touching)... likely does help matters either. All out of bays.

Just installed Spybot on D... came up with the write error, but seems to work fine. It could be the 66/33 thing. But I'm afraid I do not know how to force it to 33 only... in the CMOS (oh ok, BIOS for the non-dinosaurs)... although limiting it to a 40 conductor cable would likely force it by default.

The fifth could be MB issues in the IDE controller chips, but again nothing shows up on repeated hardware tests.

What I really need is a NEW Machine. This unit has likely close to 10000 hours of run time since '00 ... 8-10 hours a day... most every weekday. The monitor has close to four or five times that. Bought it in '93.

Its working so I'll just leave it alone. The manual edits are working.

Thanks for all your help.
Dave