[Ti] Help with multiple outgoing servers in mail

[Massimo Marino]

On Dec 21, 2003, at 7:34 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote:

> Message-Id: <B19929B8-337B-11D8-832A-0003931DDA64 at ururk.com>
> From: John <simplymail at ururk.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Help with multiple outgoing servers in mail
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 01:05:36 -0500
>
>> John - as far as I understand your question: with Eudoran (I do not
>> use mail.app), I have set up various "personalities", each of whom has
>> its own smtp, outgoing server, return mail address, name etc.
>
> I could do this - it might get a little hectic (9 email addresses set
> up already), but it is possible. I would have to set up an additional 9
> accounts.
>
> Thanks for the advice - this sounds reasonable, although I'll have to
> think about this one. With mail.app, all accounts are "active". I could
> make dummy accounts with just the outgoing mail set up, and have those
> set not to check email. That way, I only have 9 real accounts, and the
> duplicate set can be used just for sending from home.
>

You could also activate the built-in postfix in Panther and send email 
from anywhere with any ISP without having to change anything ever. 
Outgoing smtp server in mail is your local machine 127.0.0.1 . It is 
trivial to do.

Also, different accounts can be set to use different smtp servers - as 
you envisage to do - although your local postfix will never refuse to 
service you.
Additionally, when you are set up with multiples smtp servers you may 
select the one to use on a per-email basis if you want your email to be 
identified as coming from a specific smtp server (e.g., school server).

What Trevor describes with Eudora can - of course - be done with Mail 
as well.


Massimo