From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 19: 4:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3286E37B6B4 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA20645; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:33:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:33:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chip Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <20000815113359.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:53:06PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 14 August 2000 at 18:53:06 -0700, Chip wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 14 August 2000 at 17:48:27 -0700, Chip wrote: >>> Am I mistaken or does Netscape for FreeBSD not support multiple >>> profiles? >> >> I'm not sure if I understand the question. The simple answer is, I >> suppose, "no". But I looked for "profile" in the Microsoft version >> and I couldn't find anything there either. > > Turns out the answer is no. In the Microsoft version of Communicator, I > > don't know about Navigator, there is a Profile Manager, on the Start > menu > with Netscape. > This allows one person with more than one email address to start > Netscape > with a menu of profiles to choose from. For example, I have email > addresses > chip@wiegand.org and admin@wiegand.org. In the winblows version I can > set up a profile for each address independantly, then I get a menu > where I > choose which profile I wish to use. It's really quite convenient, and > too bad > it's not supported in the BSD version of Netscape. No, this is a feature, not a bug. The Microsoft "profile" idea is just a workaround for lacking functionality in the "operating system". The answer's simple: you have a user admin, and a user chip. I'd be surprised if you find any other mailers with multiple profiles. >> I assume the idea of profiles is to allow multiple people to use the >> same Netscape. Under FreeBSD, we do that by giving each person a >> separate login and home directory, so the problem doesn't arise. > > I guess I'll have to set up differant logins for myself, or find a > differant > email program. Any suggestions? Anything except Netscape. Look at the mess it made of your message. I assume you didn't really intend it to look like this. I have a number of suggestions at http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message