On Tue, April 8, 2008 12:59 pm, Stephen Irons wrote: > Don Gould wrote: >> >> >> Jim Cheetham wrote: >>> I use GNU Anubis as an SMTP proxy to do just this sort of thing. >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/ >> >> Thank you. That is the package someone said before. I remember now. >> >> Is it hard to set up? Any Gotyas? > How about NOT changing any server settings, but instead setting up a new > email account in your email client with your correct CLUG subscribe > address. You would then filter CLUG emails into a folder in this account > -- I do this using Evolution. > > Your work-flow changes from > > 1. Thinks: I want to send a message to CLUG > 2. Create a new message > 3. In the new message, change the sender address to CLUG subscribe address > 4. Type the CLUG mailing list address > > to > > 1. Thinks: I want to send a message to CLUG > 2. Change to the CLUG folder/account -- I am usually there anyway, when > I am thinking about CLUG matters > 3. Create a new message -- the sender address is correct > 4. Type the CLUG mailing list address > > You can still get it wrong if you do not follow the work-flow. But the > whole thing it visible, is easily done by any user, and does not involve > editing invisible mail configuration files. > > Thunderbird does not quite support this. At any rate, I have not found > out how to set up multiple 'Local folders' accounts. I'm sure a bit of > poking around in the Advanced Configuration will show how Thunderbird > configures its local folders account -- it might be as simple as > changing the mail.server.server<x>.type to 'none' rather than 'pop' or > 'imap'. > > Other mail clients do allow you to configure multiple local mail folders > in their own usual way. > > Stephen Irons
I personally don't agree with your solution. Mainly because your solution is a per clent per machine fix. If Don uses more than one client and/or more than one machine it will require a fix in every case. A server based solution like anubis should fix the problem forever (as long as mail is being relayed through the home server, which may be a problem when on the road.) -- Nick Rout
