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Mac Forum / General / Networking / December 2004Apple message framework setting
I'm trying to set up the email prefs for IPNetSentryX. Their support says: "IPNetSentryX uses Apple's built-in message framework for sending Email. The built-in message framework is normally configured from the Email tab of the Internet Preferences panel (which mysteriously disappeared and later reappeared in Panther)." I've looked in System Preferences and I see no Email tab anywhere. I'm running 10.3.7 currently. I haven't seen the email tab since Jaguar. The only things Under Internet & Network I see are .mac, Network, Quicktime, and Sharing. Can someone point me in the right direction? I must be going blind. > I've looked in System Preferences and I see no Email tab anywhere. I'm > running 10.3.7 currently. I haven't seen the email tab since Jaguar. > The only things Under Internet & Network I see are .mac, Network, > Quicktime, and Sharing. Can someone point me in the right direction? I > must be going blind. Love answering my own post... The folks at Sustnetworks sent me a copy of the old prefpane that has the email and web tabs. Also, it seems you can set the email and web prefs using MSIE. I'm sure there's a good reason Apple woul dmake their settings only available via a MS product. > I'm trying to set up the email prefs for IPNetSentryX. Their support says: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Quicktime, and Sharing. Can someone point me in the right direction? I > must be going blind. The "built-in message framework" is now called Launch Services and can be configured partially with Apple's Mail and Safari applications and more comprehensively with RCDefaultApp <http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/>. To anticipate the anti-X snipers who will complain that RCDefaultApp is not supplied by Apple, neither was Internet Config initially. > The "built-in message framework" is now called Launch Services and can > be configured partially with Apple's Mail and Safari applications and > more comprehensively with RCDefaultApp > <http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/>. > To anticipate the anti-X snipers who will complain that RCDefaultApp is > not supplied by Apple, neither was Internet Config initially. There's nothing in RCDefaultApp to set prefs such as the mail server to be used by Launch Services. Enterign servers info in Mail.app doesn't tell Launch Services which one to use. It seems you still need a copy of the old prefpane or use MSIE. > There's nothing in RCDefaultApp to set prefs such as the mail server to > be used by Launch Services. Enterign servers info in Mail.app doesn't > tell Launch Services which one to use. It seems you still need a copy > of the old prefpane or use MSIE. Many people these days use more than one mail server, and many SMTP servers now require authentication; so there's not much sense in Internet Config's default mail server settings. In any case, the Internet Config API is outdated. It sounds like Sustainable Softworks is trying to pass the buck for its own failure to keep its product current. Panther has been out for a while now, and they don't even know what is and isn't in it. > Many people these days use more than one mail server, and many SMTP > servers now require authentication; so there's not much sense in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Panther has been out for a while now, and they don't even know what is > and isn't in it. I did make a polite suggestion that they provide for user-defined smtp setting in their preferences. :-) |
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