M2 account.ini manipulation manually from notepad

emc

emc

Hello ,

When Opera is completely closed., is it safe to manipulate account.ini on it's : Server , email user name , password, port number ?

** What should be cautious or just straight forward job to just input what it needs on the above. Yes , I know I need first to seek for correct location of the account.ini from opera:config.

I have problem Opera shutdown with a crash so that Opera does not remmeber my email settings in "Mail and Chat Accounts".

Thank you very much., edmond

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Not 100% certain, but:

You can set things back to what they're supposed to be, if things got corrupted, and that will probably be fine. But, don't change the incoming and outgoing server names to something else than what you used with the account before.

For usernames and ports, if you change them to something different than what they used to be, it might affect the entries in wand.dat for the accounts. Besides that though, you should be okay to change them.

You can back up accounts.ini first before trying if you want. But, still no guarantees about anything. You could probably test with a whole copy of your mail folder first to see how things go. That way, if your modifications booger things up, you have your original copy of the mail folder to restore things back to where you were at least.

emc

emc @burnout426

@burnout426 Hello ,

It works fine & I've closed down / restart opera., I can see my new mail account settings are there. Send & received without issue.

However , after 2-3 days , settings in Mail account appears not my latest setting but in the old days pop/smtp ......

I wonder it was closed and restart & I re-confirm new pop/smtp applied. How come it returns few days later the old p[op/smtp ?

What would be a permanent solution?

Thank you very much., edmond.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @emc

@emc said in M2 account.ini manipulation manually from notepad:

How come it returns few days later the old p[op/smtp ?

I don't know.

@emc said in M2 account.ini manipulation manually from notepad:

What would be a permanent solution?

Export your messages for the account, delete the account (from the UI), recreate the account (in the UI) with the correct settings, and import any messages back in that you need to.

Or, go all out and do https://web.archive.org/web/20130224141621/http://my.opera.com/operawiki/forums/topic.dml?id=1162442.