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Originally posted by Rdrk
- I'd like to backup my preferences to a default folder (set by me)
when I exit MSN Messenger, when I start MSN Messenger or with
a timer (once each n minutes). Sometimes when I have to format my
HDD I found I forgot to backup my preferences, so I'd like this
automated for my convenience.
To add to what is already said about this:
Plus! is not the place this should be added to. The reason for this being that preferences and settings are saved in either files or the registry or both.
Backing up such things is not in the scope of MSN Messenger and not in the scope of Messenger Plus! as backing something up on your computer is a specific task actually not related to the programs which use those settings.
In other words, there are thousands of programs which already backup stuff on your computer (search google). Use those instead for such a specific task. Set them up so they backup only the files and registry settings for MSN Messenger and/or Messenger Plus!...
The question asked is almost the same as asking to include a "format my disk" feature in Messenger Plus! or a "painting program" in Messenger Plus!. For all such functions on a computer there are specific programs... Backing up stuff (even if it is only Messenger stuff) is also such a specific function, actually not related to Messenger.
eg: People don't ask for a backup feature in Word and Excel either, as backing stuff up is done by backup programs (even if you only backup stuff from a specific program).
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Originally posted by Rdrk
- I'd like to have the e-mail checker configured to check Yahoo!,
Hotmail, G-mail and Webmail services once each n minutes. I know
there is an e-mail checker, but most users (like me) don't know how
to configure it, so it's a matter of information and a friendly interface.
As said before (though a bit vaguely), Webmail services like Yahoo and other webmail services work totally different than normal pop3 mail services.
POP3 mail services are the only thing supported in Messenger Plus! because those services have a fixed and documented protocol.
Webmail services don't work like that and each and every webmail service has its own kind of protocol and it would be impossible to add thousands of such different protocols, that is, if you even knew how they worked as some are very closed sources and almost impossible to find out how they work.
Also, extremely many webmail services do not allow 3rd party clients to contact them and the only way you could contact them is by visiting their website and their portal (defeating the whole purpose of an integrated mail checker).
quote:
Originally posted by Rdrk
- I'd like MNS Plus! to have some scripting capabilities, so users may
write their own rutines and bots to run in the background once MSN
Plus! and MSN Messenger are started.
Since a very long time, you already can write plugins for Plus!. For more information see the
plugins section of this forum and also the
official Plugin API tutorial.
Furthermore, as said (and linked to) before there are plugins which allow you to make your own plugins (thus: plugins for plugins) in scripting languages like VBScript and Javascript. Though they are, of course, more limited.
In the new upcomming version of Messenger Plus! (Messenger Plus! Live, only compatible with Windows Live Messenger), there will also be an integrated JavaScripting feature.
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Originally posted by Rdrk
- I'd like Messenger Plus! to send log files and conversations through the
Hotmail account the user is logged in once the window is closed or
with a timer set to n minutes. This feature may be useful for many
network admins because they would have the ability to monitor
what employees are doing with MSN Messenger.
To add what has been said before:
Such a feature would not only cause an huge amount of bandwidth, it would also, in extremely many causes, breach privacy and thus would be very illegal.
And any method to fix the privacy issues will render such a feature useless for what its originally intended purpose would have been.
Nevertheless, if you really want something like this, I suggest that you again look for programs which do this already as this is, again (just as the backup question), a specific function which many programs already do: sending files to remote addresses.
In other words, search (google) for an FTP program which will periodically send certain files (the messenger log files) to a remote address.
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Originally posted by Rdrk
Also I'd like to decide conversation txt files attributes (Read Only, Hidden, etc.).
Setting file attributes is very useless as they can be changed just like that with any program. They do not provide "security" in any way.
Settings attributes to hidden is also rather useless, but nevertheless can easly be done by yourself. Set the file attributes of the log files, just as you would set the attributes of any other file in Windows. If you want the log directory to be hidden (for whatever reason), then set it like you would set any other attribute for any other directory.
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All in all, the things you ask for (except the mail question) are normal, everyday tasks which you do when you work with a computer. Because those tasks are so general, there are already thousands of specific programs which can do those things; those tasks do not need a specific and limited integration into MSN Messenger or Messenger Plus!...
Use programs for what they are designed to. eg: use a drawing program to draw pictures, use a format program to format your computer, use a backup program to backup files and registry settings, use a file manager to handle file attributes... etc...
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