This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 31-7-02 05.00 pm: > I never heard of anyone having this problem before, Nick. Can you explain > what you mean by "It all boils down to 2 accounts with different ISPs, and a > dot mac account that's set up to redirect through one of the ISPs".
<snip> > Yours must still be in a muddle that you have devised for other purposes. It's certainly a tangled web that I've woven, Paul. One of the disadvantages of working from home (on a minority OS, to boot) is that there's no-one around to glance over my shoulder, gasp in horror at my Heath-Robinsonesque re-inventions of the wheel, and quietly put me on the right track. Thank heavens for lists. But before I get all maudlin about how great it is to have the help and support of all you wonderful guys out there... > If you send in a chart here, using real names and explanations of which > accounts are real, which dummy, and how it all works, I'm sure we can sort > it out for you. My two ISPs are Demon and ntl. Demon was the first (and for some years the only) ISP I used. With ntl, I got a dialup account thrown in as part of the deal when I signed up for their phone and cable TV package. As this offered free dialup access where Demon did not, I started collecting my Demon mail through the ntl account using Demon's pop3 server. I still collect all my mail through ntl, now using a cable modem. The Demon address is the kind where any eligible characters can go before the '@' symbol, with the format '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I have two Entourage accounts set up to use this address, one as 'ndt@...' and one as 'ICT@...'. Both accounts share the same password and connection details Entourage always picks the 'ndt' account for replies, regardless of which address is on the incoming message. The ntl account came with 5 email addresses, two of which I use in Entourage accounts. The primary address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], but in a few very specific contexts I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, these accounts share password and connection details. When I reply to messages addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Entourage always puts the 'pod' address in the from field. Then came iTools. I moved all my mailing list subscriptions to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, and for reasons lost in the mists of time, activated the 'email forwarding' feature. At first, I sent mac.com mail to the ntl account, but ntlworld.com and mac.com had a serious falling out and my mac.com mail stopped getting through, I redirected it to the Demon account, where it has stayed ever since. As a result, the route it travels to get to my mailbox is a trifle tortuous, being forwarded to Demon and then passed on to ntl. Entourage puts the 'ndt@...' Demon account in the from field when I reply to mac.com messages, but I suppose it can be forgiven for dropping the ball on this last one. It would be great to get this mess sorted out, so thanks for taking the time to look at it. (You'll have noticed that this doesn't add up to the 9 accounts mentioned in my original post. The rest are three 'legacy accounts' configured for connecting directly to Demon, via dialup - almost never used now that ntl's cable service is reasonably solid - and one dummy account.) Cheers Nick -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
