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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

I use NS 7.2, the provider is StarBand. We have the primary account on one computer and a secondary one on another machine, with a total of 10 free accounts available.
I have already opened another secondary account on StarBand but now need to know now:
1. How to set up this new account on the machine with the primary account
2. Currently, when clicking on the "Mail & Newsgroups" icon, the primary account pops up. How would I access the secondary account once it is set up?

I have not done anything because we had a heck of a time getting NS to work with StarBand, hence I did not want to try something that could possibly screw up the primary account!

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[Ramona]

Welcome to the Forum, Brigitte Rhinehart!

1. How to set up this new account on the machine with the primary account

Open Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings
Click on the "New Account" tab
The Account Wizard will open, and you enter the information as required
See these Screen Shots, which will show the info you need to set up the new account.

2. How would I access the secondary account once it is set up?

In the left panel of the Mail window, the new account will be listed, as shown in this Screen Shot of my Mail Accounts. For obvious reasons I have cut the actual email addresses. You can see that I have several Mail accounts, in addition to NG accounts. You will access your Inbox and other Mail folders exactly as you access your primary account. It should cause no problems.

Ramona

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[Fulvio]

I use NS 7.2, the provider is StarBand. We have the primary account on one computer and a secondary one on another machine, with a total of 10 free accounts available.
I have already opened another secondary account on StarBand but now need to know now:
1. How to set up this new account on the machine with the primary account
2. Currently, when clicking on the "Mail & Newsgroups" icon, the primary account pops up. How would I access the secondary account once it is set up?

I have not done anything because we had a heck of a time getting NS to work with StarBand, hence I did not want to try something that could possibly screw up the primary account!

Hi,
Ramona and everyone else are, probably tire to hear me telling that I have six providers set up in Mozilla 1.7.2, with ten account. And, more in NS7.2.
The old NS 4.x could handle only one POP account for each profile. but I don't know if there is a limit in Netscape.
There is no problem, unless you need authentication to send mail. If you don't know what authentication is, and your provider does not mention it, you will be ok. But, in any case, you will not mess up the primary account.

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[Gregor]

There is no problem, unless you need authentication to send mail. If you don't know what authentication is, and your provider does not mention it, you will be ok. But, in any case, you will not mess up the primary account.

Agreed. I find out also that setting multiple outgoing servers (if needed) can cause problems in Netscape. At least im my case did. Hmm, I think that this is the subject to pay attention to.

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[Fulvio]

Agreed. I find out also that setting multiple outgoing servers (if needed) can cause problems in Netscape. At least im my case did. Hmm, I think that this is the subject to pay attention to.

Gregor, I found no problem, if the account is tied to the correct SMTP by way of one of the mysterious "Advanced" button. I sent a feedback, aking to explain what those buttons are. They change the location, and continue confusing people by throwing in Advanced. And, this is a Mozilla ailment, first.

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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

Ramona, thanks for your reply, it worked as per your instructions.

I have two more topics:

1. This may sound stupid, but can I safely remove all the earlier versions of NS that Im now have on my hard disk without messing up the 7.2 version I currently use?

2. Ever so often, when I am trying to send out mail, the password window pops up. I usually have to enter the password a couple of times for it to work, this despite checking everytime the "remember passord" box. Sometimes it only works if I put the message in the "Send Later" file and then send it from there.
I checked the password manager and all my passwords incl. the one for the outgoing server is listed under "passwords saved".

I appreciate your assistance.

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[Ramona]

Hi Brigette,

1. Yes, you can safely remove any Netscape Versions other than Netscape 7.2.

2. Have you tried removing that password? Remove the password, and exit Netscape (for good measure). Restart Netscape, and when you try to access Mail from your account, Netscape should ask for the Password. You can enable the "Remember Password" option again at this point. Hopefully this will prevent the popup from recurring.

Let us know if you continue to have problems.

Ramona

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[Alice]

1. This may sound stupid, but can I safely remove all the earlier versions of NS that Im now have on my hard disk without messing up the 7.2 version I currently use?

Your current Netscape 7.xx program MAY be using the shockwave and flash plugins, and possibly other plugins from the C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins folder so it might be prudent to make a backup copy of the Communicator\Program\Plugins folder, "just in case", before uninstalling Netscape Copmmunicator. Otherwise, you'll have to reinstall the lost plugins... easy for showckwave and flash. Not sure what else you may be using from Ns4.xx
See:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/notes.html#Scanning
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/notes.html#scan-nn4

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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

1. I am getting conflicting messages from Ramona and Alice regarding the removal of old NS versions. I have NS 7.0 and 7.1 on the hard drive but do not have NS 4 anymore. Please advise if indeed I can safely remove NS 7.0 and 7.1 without damaging 7.2

2. Ramona, again, here is a possibly stupid question: Where do I go to remove the password?

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[Alice]

1. Since you no longer have Communicator 4.xx installed then my suggestion to
...make a backup copy of the Communicator\Program\Plugins folder, "just in case", before uninstalling Netscape Communicator
no longer applies.

If you have Netscape 7.1 or Netscape 7.0 installed into different "program files" folders, IN ADDITION TO Netscape 7.2, then go ahead and remove those versions from Control Panel, "Add or Remove Programs" then go back after a reboot and delete any leftover Program Files folders from their respective hard drive locations.

If you installed Netscape 7.2 "on top of" Netscape 7.0 or Netscape 7.1 then the uninstall entries ("change or remove programs" entries in WinXP) in Add/Remove programs will no longer work, since you effectively replaced the earlier Netscape 7.xx versions. Those orphaned entires can safely be ignored. See http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6875
removing 7.1

It's always wise to uninstall earlier versions of Netscape 7.xx or Mozilla before installing a newer version.

2. Since you addressed your second question to Ramona, I will let her reply.

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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

Alice, since Ramona has not replied to my query on this subject to date, would you kindly tell me how to do this, thanks.

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[Fulvio]

Brigitte, I am not sure what question you had for Ramona. As I read the entire thread, still having problems with the passwords. You need to go to your Edit|Preferences|Privacy and Security|Passwords|Manage Passwords, and delete any passwords which you may have for the account.
Then enter them, and save.
I think that you will have to summarize what you are not understanding, yet.

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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

Hi Fulvio, the issue was that that the password box popped up in a rather erratic way when I was sending messages, i.e. sometimes it appeared and sometimes it did not.
I followed your suggestion and went to the the password page in the "Privacy & Security" section. I then accidentally deleted all the saved passwords. When I went back to sending out test messages, the password box popped up again but it was different from the one before. I wrote in the password and checked the "remember" box. So far, so good, the box has not come up again. I also checked the password manager and the mail and smtp passwords are saved in the manager.
Thanks for your help, I think at this point the problem has been solved.

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[Fulvio]

Good to hear that you may have solved one problem. But, you will have to make sure that when you will need to enter other passwords that you enter the correct one.
I have all my user/password combinations typed on a sheet of paper. I don't store any of this in my computer. However, I do save some of the passwords.
I don't know if you know that you can view the passwords in NS7.2. I do it at times, but I always change back to the encrypted form. This way it is not necessary to compare with a paper list or just wonder why you are refused access. In 100% of the case, I had made an error.

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[Brigitte Rhinehart]

Fulvio, I keep my passwords on a typed list as well. I am not quite sure if I understand correctly how you manage your passwords. You don't save them in the password manager, i.e. you type it in every time you access a password protected site, correct?. I assume this is for safety reasons.

You said that one can look up the passwords on NS 7.2, I assume that's the password manager? And I guess the encrypted form are the little stars that appear in the password block?

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