[drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.2b4

[Ron Wenig]

Dan,

Paclink uses for SMTP Port number 25 and for POP3 Port number 110.  
Outlook Express uses localhost to receive mail from the Paclink files.

Ron ny3j

Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just posted 0.3.2b4 with the following changes:
>
>  - Provide a way to request that a remote system check an email account
>    for you
>  - Add an "enabled" toggle on configured email accounts
>  - Change "Incoming Email" to "Email Accounts" in preferences
>
> Now you can right-click on a station on in the stations side bar and
> choose "Request mail check".  Your system will prompt you to select one
> of your configured email accounts, or to specify custom login
> parameters.  When you hit the okay button, it will provide that
> information to the remote system, which will do a single check of your
> mail and queue any messages that it retrieves for delivery to you.  The
> remote system must have an internet connection (of course) and have
> message forwarding enabled for this to work.
>
> Using this feature, you can check any mail account you want as long as
> you're in range of a station that has internet access.  The best thing
> to do is configure it in your "Email Accounts" section of preferences
> and make sure that you can check it successfully.  Then, disable it in
> your preferences so that your system isn't checking that account
> directly and then request another station to check it.
>
> I can easily add another special case to this that will present a
> special "WL2K" account in the list which will assume the remote system
> is running PacLink.  If someone could provide me with the default port
> that PacLink uses for incoming mail, I can add that and we can extend
> this further.
>
> Also, comments on the "Request mail check" wordage in the stations menu
> would be appreciated because I think it's not totally intuitive right now.
>
> Let me know how it works for you!
>
>