RE: [Pan-users] Access provider, email provider, and Pan

[Travis]

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Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 09:53
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Pan-users] Access provider, email provider, and Pan

> In connection with a grand reworking of my whole email
> operation, I'm being urged on comp.mail.pine to give up the
> use of adelphia.net (which I only wish I could replace in
> toto!) for email. (I already do the vast majority of my email
> on a remote IMAP machine, which I access from my adelphia
> account; the project is to revise things so that, among other
> benefits, I can handle that from within the remote account.)
> 
> I've been using adelphia for two purposes. Mostly, it's just
> a spamtrap -- though my usenet posts produce a fair number of
> direct replies which I'd hate to be without. A minor point is
> that an address like <address@hidden> is a lot easier
> for people whom I first encounter in the flesh to hear,
> spell, and remember than my main one.
> 
> But the main reason I'm using it at all is that, in order to
> access adelphia's newsfeed (subcontracted to giganews), afaik
> I have to give my adelphia address and password -- and Pan
> then also uses that as my posting address -- which is of
> course what makes it primarily a spamtrap.
> 
> So if I were to abandon that address, would Pan be able to
> use some other in some way?? Or would I have to find another
> newsfeed provider??

I have to use my userId and password to access my news server and I
put that info in the "News Servers" and I put an invalid address in
"Posting Profiles" and it works and I don't get any spam from my
newsgroup posts.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington