Rewettened

[rejectomorph]

The break in the storm was brief. Dusk bought the return of clouds, and the rain soon followed. It has grown very cold once again, but I no longer have to keep the room frigid, as I am no longer utterly dependant on Sluggo. Still, I got very little done on the computer(s) tonight. TMC was showing Bogart movies until three o'clock. Teh Interwebs can't compete with film noir.

After the movies, I had a craving for scrambled eggs. I rarely eat them. At one time, when I used to wander the night streets of Los Angeles, often after seeing a movie, it was my habit on returning to my neighborhood to stop at a 24 hour greasy spoon diner called the Seven Stars Cafe and have scrambled eggs and hash browns before going home to sleep. Maybe it was movie-induced nostalgia which brought on my craving tonight. The odd thing is that I've never much liked scrambled eggs, or any sort of eggs, really, but at three o'clock in the morning at a greasy spoon diner they become... interesting. Unfortunately, I've never been able to cook them as well as they did at the Seven Stars Cafe. Tonight, I made some anyway, and was reminded of why I so seldom do. They were pretty bad. A bit of salsa picante fixed them up, though. It is my belief that salsa picante has done more to curb food wastage than have all the nagging mothers laying guilt trips about children starving in whatever place children are currently starving. Salsa picante is a great invention.

Snooping in the Mozilla FAQs, I think that I may have stumbled on a way to get Thunderbird to fetch mail from all three of my chiconet e-mail identities. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, as I would have to close the program each time I wanted to switch from one identity to another. However, I usually kept only one identity (the one that fetches LJ notifications) logged in and checking mail when I was using Outlook Express, so it wouldn't be that different from the way it was with Sluggo. I also think that the new computer is stable enough that I could keep an instance of Opera open under Firefox, and have it check for mail in my other frequently used identity. That's what it's been doing for the last year or so when I've been using it as my default browser. Sluggo would most likely have blown up had I had two different browsers open at a time.

Oh, day is fading in. No time to try setting up the accounts in Thunderbird. Time to be sung to sleep by the rain.

Comments

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't go to the trouble of doing all that. You can just go to Tools -> Account Settings and add another account for each additional username on chiconet.

[rejectomorph]

I tried that, but it didn't work. The problem is that my chiconet account is set up with a different password for each identity, and Thunderbird doesn't give me the option of using multiple passwords through the tools-> account settings route.

[polonius.livejournal.com]

I'm a little puzzled by what you mean when you say 'multiple passwords'. Each identity has its own username, right? Thunderbird can handle multiple accounts fine, it just doesn't store the passwords under Account Settings. If you set the accounts up, you'll be prompted for the password for each of them the first time you check for mail.

The only way I can figure this not working is if you have some strange setup with only one username but multiple different passwords producing different results. In which case Chiconet is on crack.

[rejectomorph]

No, it's multiple identities, each with its own user name and password, but all part of a single account using the same POP and SMTP server. I set all three names up in Thunderbird, but wasn't prompted for the password for the seconnd and third usernames either at the time of setup or when I tried to fetch mail from those inboxes.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

Psst. Outlook Excess is still on your machine.

Start Menu->Set Program Access blah blah->Custom

Click and enable access to evil MicroShaft crap.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

PS: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Multiple_SMTP_Servers

[rejectomorph]

Chiconet only has the one SMTP server, so that doesn't apply in this case.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

bzzzt!

you can use multiple entries with the SAME server address, each containing the a different password.

[rejectomorph]

It's what I tried to do before. It didn't work, and still doesn't. It won't let me add the passwords for the additional identities.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

You make separate SMTP server entries with different passwords and attach them to the appropriate identity. You need to give each SMTP server a different nickname.

I have ThunderBird on my other machine and can try to figure it out if you decide not to switch back to Outlook Excess.

[rejectomorph]

Inexplicably, it has begun fetching mail from two of my three identities. I have no idea how I did it, so I'm afraid to try adding the third identity again. The interface is bizarre.

[her-whispers.livejournal.com]

It is my belief that salsa picante has done more to curb food wastage than have all the nagging mothers laying guilt trips about children starving in whatever place children are currently starving. Salsa picante is a great invention

i concur!

:)


M.

[rejectomorph]

Salsas of all kinds cover a multitude of gastronomic sins. It is salvation for the tongue, though it extracts a burning price.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I always have both opera and firefox windows going.

[rejectomorph]

I'm having trouble with Firefox's tabs. I open them, and try to get a page, but they are unable to find anything. They can't even find Google. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Opera's tabs are much easier to use. I'll probably still be using it a lot.