Disable Internet access when starting Netscape 4.72 mail
Erlend Leganger
Internet for two reasons: to check for new mail and to display a web
page at netscape.com. By poking around in resdll.dll, I managed to get
rid of the web page access by setting start_page to false:
pref("mailnews.start_page.url",
"http://messenger.netscape.com/bookmark/4_5/messengerstart.html");
pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false); // <--- Changed from true
to false here!
However, I haven't been able to disable the check for new email. Any
tips on how I can do this? I have tried the Offline mode, but I then I
must remembe always to got to Offline mode when I shut down Netscape and
turn to Online mode when I want to go online; not a good solution.
Why do I need this? Here at home, I often want to start Netscape mail to
draft messages without connecting to the Internet. However, today the
ISDN router immediately connects each time I start Netscape mail, and
then it sits there idle, waiting to time out the connection. This is a
nuisance and it also wastes money. I would like to control myself when
Netscape shall connecte to the Internet.
Paul B. Gallagher
Edit | Preferences :
Mail Servers
"Edit" button
"General" tab
Clear the check boxes that say
"Check for mail every nn minutes"
and "Automatically download messages"
That should do it.
Jim Clow
See:
http://www.ufaq.org/setups_all.html
for setup examples, in particular the Mail & Newsgroups material.
See:
http://www.ufaq.org/commonly/msngr_start.html
for instructions to remove the mail startup material.
These are links found at:
http://www.ufaq.org/
which you might find useful for future problems.
Jim Clow
CBFalconer
Somewhere there is a configuration box for startup that allows
choices between:
Go online at startup
Go offline at startup
Ask which
and I also set the startup page to be none.
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