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 | | From: | extrapolator | | Subject: | Problems with importing from Eudora | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:43:33 -0500 |
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 | Opera 8.00 has problems importing from Eudora.
Eudora has email personalities with the capabilities of different incoming
and outgoing email servers and different email addresses for each
personality.
When the Opera import from Eudora is selected, Opera duplicates the entire
Eudora mailbox tree under each personality.
When Opera import from Eudora is selected, Opera appears to simply take
the Eudora "POPAccount" name, but it is not the valid email address for my
hybrid personalities.
This can be verified by setting up a dummy personality in Eudora, with the
words "incoming.net" for the incoming mail server name and "outgoing.name"
in the generic properties user name field. Then go into Opera and select
import mail from Eudora.
You will see "outgoing.name@incoming.net" as an account.
Opera does not take the email address from Eudora's ReturnAddress field.
Because Eudora can have different send and receive smtp servers on the
same account, an invalid email address is shown. This is exactly the
situation I have with a hybrid system using a satellite downlink and a
dial-up outgoing channel. I was required to send from the satellite
provider's smtp server while reading mail from my local ISP SMTP server.
Because of the way Eudora put things together, it put my outgoing smtp
server login name together with my local ISP's incoming mail server,
resulting is a cross connected email address that was completely wrong.
Eudora has a field for the email address. That field is used for the from
email address on outgoing mail, and that is normally the email address for
incoming mail for the personality.
If the smtp server and the pop server are different, Opera should use the
ReturnAddress field if it is populated. If the field is not populated,
then I suggest Opera use the persona name and not use the POPAccount
field. The user can then edit the account data.
It would actually be much more user friendly to see the Eudora Persona
name from the field [persona-] when importing email from Eudora,
rather than a list of email addresses, some of which are just plain wrong.
Also, Opera should NOT automatically set-up the email account and try to
check the mail when email is imported. Checking mail should only be
activated by the user after the user has edited the new account and
manually turned it on. (This should probably apply to all imports, not
just from Eudora.)
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