>Are you saying that the SMTP version does not require me changing account >settings? I thought I had to.
Correct. You change nothing, you just run the SMTP version instead of a normal version. >Or is the way ti works is send the account name and password as the >password login? Correct, it uses the username and password from the POP settings for the SMTP settings. >Is this email account independent? i.e, can I use an SMTP server, lets >say mcn.org, which requires SMTP authentification, for all outgoing mail >for all my 40 accounts? (on different ISP's.) Probably not. The SMTP Auth it linked directly to the POP info, and can not be changed. That means, whatever SMTP server you put into the SMTP Server field, must A: support Login Authentication (fairly common for those that require SMTP Auth), and B: must accept the POP username and password as the SMTP Auth username and password (also common for those that require smtp auth). This means if you are collecting say, a .Mac account via POP, but put the mcn.org SMTP server into the SMTP Server field, the Auth would almost certainly fail when you try to send email, as you would end up sending your .Mac POP username and password to the mcn.org SMTP server, which it would consider an invalid combination. >And the only problem is when I need to use another SMTP server, in which >case, I change the account settings to the new server and use the older >version of emaler? If the above hasn't made sense to you to address all your questions, then can you clarify what your goal is with the above quoted section. The intent is to never have to change any settings at any time. If the server for the account you want to use requires SMTP Auth, then you run the SMTP Auth version. If it doesn't, then you run the regular version. Never changing any account settings. The problems that people can run into that I see are two: 1. The mail host doesn't support Login authentication. 2. You need to use a different username and password than you use for POP services (this most likely would be due to needing to send email using a SMTP Server that doesn't match the POP server you are collecting from, ie: all outbound mail has to go thru your ISPs SMTP server instead of via the server that belongs to the actual mail account being used). I can fix issue #1 if I had better C++ skills (I attempted to offer Plain authentication as well, but failed due to my lack of good C++ programming knowledge), but issue #2 would be very VERY difficult to address, if not impossible, simply because there is no real way to store any additional information about the accounts, ie: no way to tell Emailer that you want to use different settings than the account currently has. If issue #2 is a problem, then it may be time to look for a new mail client (or try to get Baton Mail to work for you, which can handle #2) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
