On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:31, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:18, Gil Hauer wrote: > > Is there an easy way to dynamically change the smtp server information > > for each account? I tend to move my laptop between work and home and > > it's a bit of a pain editing the mail settings each time I want to send > > mail. Is there an evironment variable or something? > > Use DNS. Do you have a different domain name at home and at the office? > Try to get a cname in both domains that has the same name and points to > the smtp server. Eg. at home on my lan I have smtp.myhome.lan pointing > to my smtp gateway, and at the office I have smtp.myoffice.lan pointing > at the office mail server. I then configure my mail server to be just > "smtp", and the machine's domain (either myoffice.lan or myhome.lan) > will get suffixed to this before getting resolved to the right mail > server.
You can also just have a local name like "smtp" in your /etc/hosts file, and you won't need your provider's assistance. If you arrange that that entry changes when you connect in different places, everything will work transparently. [Well, you may still have issues with authentication being different in the two places.] In order to get arbitrary config files changed when you log in at different places, I use an excellent little program called "intuitively". It probes your network to see where you are, and based on the results, configures whatever files you want. - Ian _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
