Re: Windows refugee questions...

ac wrote:
David B Teague wrote:

<SNIP>
Isn't Verizon a web mail, online email account? This suggests that you
can access your email from any machine anywhere on the internet, using
a web browser (such as firefox etc etc) - is this true?

If so then it is likely that the process for email will be via your
browser of choice and its facilities. If say firefox works for you in
windows, it will do the same in linux for example. Your mail at
verizon will remain on their machines and will not be affected by your
machine OS.

Verizon provides a "web mail" interface that is the incredibly poor. It
makes Unix/Linux command line "mail" program look good. I use it ONLY
when I am out of town for long enough to need to delete some messages
before I return. I can also use Thunderbird or Outlook Express etc to
fetch mail to my local machine. (Is this the POP protocol?) That isn't
an option from a machine booted from a read-only CD.
I was fretting because in the distant past, when network access was via
NIC, setup always wanted an IP number.


The NIC will be automatically recognised by ubuntu (most distros in
fact nowadays!) and during both live CD use and the default install
process, DHCP will be used without any input from you at all. Just
have the machine and network normally connected during install etc. If
in the unusual case of dhcp not working I guess more manual
configuration would be needed. So the NIC will be configured
automatically with a local IP number via dhcp. BTW it is usual mostly
for the router device to want to be 192.168.1.1 and the PC to be
allocated another IP such as 192.168.1.5 say. This is not a firm
standard but sort of a likely convention.


Ah Sorry. I checked again; you are of course right about the IP numbers..
<SNIP>

So I can expect it to "just work".

<SNIP>


(see my comments above about web mail?) I wonder if I have fully
understood you here. Do you also use POP3 mail collection from a
provider also? Verizon?


I'm not sure what you are asking. Here is my setup:

All I have is POP (remove messages from the server as they are downloaded)

I have Verizon ADSL, and I receive email from their mail server. I also
receive mail from another provider, Mountain Area Information Network,
MAIN.net. Thunderbird is set so that email is automatically downloaded
from each provider and Thunderbird will send through either provider.

then I'll move email to the Linux side. I
will have more questions about moving email with Thunderbird at that time.


I mostly use only thunderbird (TB) for email. In my escape phase
towards linux I first used TB on windows (and later also on linux with
the linux TB settings to not delete the mail at the server - read mail
first on linux, then read and delete using the usual approach in windows).

This sounds like something I need to do. How do I set up Thunderbird so
it fetches messages but doesn't remove the messages from the server?

When I finally stopped using windows I had to copy the files (simple
copy) from windows to linux. I was shocked by the simplicity.
Directories had to chosen of course and a couple of files needed
special care for the directory, but it was simple.

Aren't there are some details that are glossed over here? I have done
this under Windows when I replaced a hard disk. Isn't there is
something you have to do in Thunderbird to actually _see_ the new
folder? What is it? I recall stuff like having to create a folder with
the same name in the new Thunderbird installation as it had in the old
installation, then overwrite the new file with the old file. I recall
having to delete the index file. Otherwise I can't see the folder in
Thunderbird.

But you make me think I am making this job harder for myself than I need
to.

Warmest Regards
David Teague


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