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stephdiary in the pub last night: something like a proxyconfig.pac but for auto-configuring email software. This would be a boon because it's too complicated for most users.
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gerald_duck mentioned that he has written a C++ program which frobs the registry in order to acheive something like this for common MUAs running on NT or its descendents.
stephdiary in the pub last night: something like a proxyconfig.pac but for auto-configuring email software. This would be a boon because it's too complicated for most users.gerald_duck mentioned that he has written a C++ program which frobs the registry in order to acheive something like this for common MUAs running on NT or its descendents.
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Date: 2004-12-17 11:08 (UTC)(Warning: This is a remembered conversation from early in the office xmas thing in the pub)
.ins files are .ini files. The fields are (now) reasonably documented in the IEAK (IE adaption kit); a MS downloadable thing. It will deal with DUN and lookout (and lookout express) and IE and things. It will happily add settings; deleting them is impossible(?), changing them is interesting.
It works on a Mac, too; this is because it used to DTRT with mac IE and mac outlook, and apple have carried on using it with macbuddy, even though it now configures different things.
If you need more clues, I'll see what I can get of of the turpike gang when I'm sober. And likely to stay that way ;-)