Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email?

From	Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email?
Date	2011-04-08 21:21 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<barmar-4D7314.21210408042011@reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example.com> (permalink)
References	<siegman-356EB3.08103608042011@sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu> <vilain-D9BDA2.09443608042011@news.individual.net>

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In article <vilain-D9BDA2.09443608042011@news.individual.net>,
 Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <siegman-356EB3.08103608042011@sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
>  AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Can I convince MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora instead of Mail for its Send 
> > Email and Copy Self options on my Mac under Snow Leopard?
> > 
> > The "Edit IC Helpers" button in the Help Applications preferences pane 
> > no longer seems to respond or do anything.
> > 
> > I know where the com.apple.internetconfig.plist files are in my user 
> > Library and can edit them with BBEdit, but don't know what the correct 
> > edits are (or even if this is the right place to be editing things).
> 
> Near as I can tell, it's not using either of those applications to send 
> mail.  It's queueing a mail message directly to the mail transfer agent.
> 
> On older systems, that was sendmail.  On 10.6, that's postfix.

Actually, it's neither.  MT-NW connects to the SMTP server that you 
specify in Personalities->Mail Server.  The local MTA software is only 
relevant if you've configured it to connect to localhost rather than a 
remote SMTP server (e.g. your ISP's server).

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-08 08:10 -0700
  Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-08 08:17 -0500
  Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-08 09:44 -0700
    Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-04-08 21:21 -0400
      Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-08 21:38 -0700
        Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? Dan Kozar <dklb1@NOSPAMverizon.net> - 2011-04-09 12:31 -0400
        Re: Getting MT-NewsWatcher to use Eudora for email? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-04-09 17:45 -0400

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