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billh
post Nov 14 2004, 10:19 AM
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Hi,

I thought some might be interested in my latest batch file to manage ePrompter configurations. I think my old file was the inspiration for the nicely done ePbatch files.

I've only tested under Win98se so the considerations and documentation with ePbatch mostly apply. Although my batch file, ePrompter.bat, works fine as is, hopefully, it will be developed into the well-documented type of utility that ePbatch has become. My file contains some minimal documentation at the end of it.

This one cycles through 26 configurations, allowing the management of 416 email accounts. That should satisfy almost all needs! (I'm about to cross the 48 account mark, myself). It makes no changes to the contents of the ini files as set up by ePrompter. Alternate configurations are maintained in backup files renamed by single alphabet letter extensions from the original ini files.

See the appended "ePrompter.bat" file. I see in the preview for this post that my comment formatting at the end of the file has been damaged. If you have trouble reconstructing something readable, let me know.

Bill H.

[This post edited by Ximinez to remove appended lines of file code, since the actual file has been attached in the following reply.]

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post Nov 30 2004, 07:37 PM
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Bill,

Thanks for writing the program!!! I've got numerous emails, so this is a real help.

Do you have a help file or read me text? I'm using XP.

Thanks!
Alex.

QUOTE(billh @ Nov 14 2004, 03:21 PM)
Hi,

I thought some might be interested in my latest batch file to manage ePrompter configurations. I think my old file was the inspiration for the nicely done ePbatch files.

I've only tested under Win98se so the considerations and documentation with ePbatch mostly apply. Although my batch file, ePrompter.bat, works fine as is, hopefully, it will be developed into the well-documented type of utility that ePbatch has become. My file contains some minimal documentation at the end of it.

This one cycles through 26 configurations, allowing the management of 416 email accounts. That should satisfy almost all needs! (I'm about to cross the 48 account mark, myself). It makes no changes to the contents of the ini files as set up by ePrompter. Alternate configurations are maintained in backup files renamed by single alphabet letter extensions from the original ini files.

See the appended "ePrompter.bat" file. I see in the preview for this post that my comment formatting at the end of the file has been damaged. If you have trouble reconstructing something readable, let me know.

Bill H.

[This post edited by Ximinez to remove appended lines of file code, since the actual file has been attached in the following reply.]
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post Dec 29 2004, 10:55 PM
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> Do you have a help file or read me text? I'm using XP.

Hi Alex!

The brief readme is in the REM remark statements at the end of the batch file. The nice documentation done for ePbatch mostly applies, as well, with the naming changes indicated in the remarks at the end of my contributed batch file.

The basic procedure is this. Use ePrompter to set up a few email accounts, 16 or less, that you want to manage together. After your setup is done and tested look for where the ePrompter.ini file was stored on your system drive under XP. Making sure you have completely exited ePrompter, you now rename ePrompter.ini to ePrompter.A and your first email group is setup and ready to go.

Next start ePrompter and create the next email group you want to manage. Get completely out of ePrompter and rename that ePrompter.ini file to ePrompter.B so that you have 2 configurations at this juncture, stored in ePrompter.A and ePrompter.B.

Keep doing this for as many configurations as you like and completely exit ePrompter. Now, pick the configuration you want to begin using, e.g., ePrompter.C, and rename it to ePrompter.ini. Whatever single configuration is renamed to ePrompter.ini is the one that will be active when you start ePrompter. So go ahead and start ePrompter and enjoy using this configuration.

When you want to change to the next configuration, completely exit ePrompter, and run ePrompter.BAT to setup the next configuration in the cycle of alphabet names. Put the BAT file in the same directory as the INI file. In this example, if the "C" configuration is the one you were most recently using, the BAT file will set up the "D" file, if you had one, or if "C" was your last configuration, the BAT file would cycle the next configuration to the "A" set. Everytime you run the BAT file with ePrompter not running, the next configuration in the cycle you defined will become the active configuration.

What I do in Win9se to make this more convenient is to place shortcuts to both the BAT file and ePrompter on the top of the Start button menu. In XP you do this by "pinning" shortcuts to the BAT file and ePrompter. See the right click menu when you right click on an executable file or shortcut.

Now that I have so many configurations easily managed and available in ePrompter.BAT, I'm finding I'm thinking of each configuration differently than before. Previously, I packed each configuration with 16 accounts and each email account appeared in only one configuration. Now I'm thinking of an email configuration as a "working group" of accounts. For example, I have one configuration that is my web group management configuration. It contains the 8 email accounts, including my "personal/family" account, that I use for managing discussion groups on the web. My personal email account also appears in most of my other configurations for convenience, 2 of the other accounts in the web group management set appear in other configurations.

Also, my A,B, and C configurations are my "high frequency" configurations that I spend the most time in. The remaining configurations (currently D thru H) hold email accounts that are low priority/frequency or just being held for future uses. I usually cycle through these very quickly once a week just to see what's going on there. Cycling quickly is possible because both ePrompter and the BAT file are convenient on the start menu.

Good luck! Let me know how things work out for you.

Bill H.
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billh   16-Account Limit - New Workaround   Nov 14 2004, 10:19 AM
Ximinez   Bill, Thank-you for a very sophisticated enhancem...   Nov 14 2004, 12:31 PM
theonenonly   Does anybody have a workaround of the 16 email acc...   Jan 12 2005, 08:52 PM
Ximinez   I suspect that the workaround should run for any ...   Jan 12 2005, 08:54 PM
theonenonly   Yupz! Before i updated the SR63, i was able ...   Jan 12 2005, 09:26 PM
newbie   Bill, Thanks for writing the program!!...   Nov 30 2004, 07:37 PM
billh   > Do you have a help file or read me text? I...   Dec 29 2004, 10:55 PM
theonenonly   Thanks for your advice, Texfisk. I tried uninstal...   Jan 13 2005, 06:28 AM
Texfisk   In reading the batch file it looks as though one o...   Jan 12 2005, 11:03 PM
Texfisk   theonenonly I just tried the barch file. It works...   Jan 13 2005, 11:44 AM
theonenonly   Hi Texfisk, I dont understand this part : ...   Jan 13 2005, 09:53 PM
Texfisk   theonenonly Eprompter can only access 16 accounts...   Jan 13 2005, 10:07 PM
theonenonly   Hi Texfisk, I finally got it working..... i reali...   Jan 14 2005, 12:18 AM
NYCity   Hi ho Your batch files is INGENUOUS... But NOT EL...   Jul 16 2005, 09:10 PM
Ximinez   NYCity, It's definitely more elegant than th...   Jul 17 2005, 09:38 PM
billh   I'm experimenting with a Delphi-programmed, im...   Jul 18 2005, 12:16 PM
Ximinez   Cool ... B)   Jul 18 2005, 04:34 PM
NYCity   Hi hos Using this method I have modified the Batc...   Jul 21 2005, 09:57 AM
NYCity   Hi hos The modified batch file now works on FLASH...   Jul 23 2005, 09:00 AM
Texfisk   The idea has merit. For two or three sets it would...   Jul 17 2005, 12:20 AM
NYCity   Since when ELEGANCE been cheap? You are right.....   Jul 17 2005, 08:01 PM
NYCity   Moreover... On auto update the darn unnecessary f...   Aug 20 2005, 11:29 AM
Newelljo   Will this batch approach work if I want to set up ...   Nov 23 2005, 02:56 PM
Texfisk   Jodi, Yes and No. You can setup two different ini...   Nov 23 2005, 03:41 PM
Newelljo   Thanks for the info Tex. I think I may go ahead...   Nov 23 2005, 03:47 PM
cwr2   can you please tell me how to setup 2 diferent ...   Jan 18 2006, 05:17 AM
Ximinez   I have answered this question already: http://ww...   Jan 18 2006, 12:10 PM
kiks   Bill H, The eP multiple configurations and toggli...   Nov 29 2005, 09:23 PM
Ximinez   Kiks, I don't know if Bill H is following th...   Nov 30 2005, 02:30 AM
Texfisk   The other way would take some coding to keep files...   Nov 30 2005, 09:45 AM
Ximinez   Yikes! :blink:   Nov 30 2005, 09:24 PM
kiks   Texfisk, Ximinez...Thanks for the reply. Texfisk....   Dec 1 2005, 10:58 AM
Texfisk   kiks There is a sample on this thread that might ...   Dec 1 2005, 11:48 AM
Ximinez   I forgot about that thread, Tex! :rolleyes: ...   Dec 2 2005, 02:04 AM
light   hi, am new to epromopter. this is a great app...   Dec 3 2005, 11:54 AM
Ximinez   light, welcome to the forum! That would be a ...   Dec 3 2005, 12:28 PM
Texfisk   It does work on XP. Follow this thread for more in...   Jan 18 2006, 09:36 AM
netaces2k   Hey all. I am a programmer... (This should get m...   Nov 16 2006, 05:57 AM
DisguisedRose   Hi, netaces2k. :) I'll mention your post t...   Nov 16 2006, 09:42 AM


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