Hi, I believe that my original suggestion is the cleanest. I did find some information in Apple's documentation that mentions the following:
When you choose a different server for an account, all messages you send from the account use that server until the network status changes. The status can change when you move from one network to another (say, from work to home), or if your Mac goes to sleep and wakes up in a different network environment. This gives me the impression that, essentially, you could go into Mail Prefs, switch your outgoing server, close Mail Prefs, then send messages using that server to the G Mail group, then go back into Mail Prefs, Accounts, switch the outgoing server back to the iCloud and so on. This seems far more cumbersome to me and would possibly cause grief if you forgot to change the smtp outgoing server before sending things. The method I originally suggested maintains proper smtp outgoing servers with default sending but allows you to easily change things for the messages you wish to send using the G Mail outgoing server. I hope this makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 23, 2018, at 09:19, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Other than when a specific smtp server is unavailable, I don't know of a way to easily have Mail choose an alternate smtp server. There may be such a way, but I'm not familiar with it. That being said, having two accounts on your Mac is the best solution in my opinion. Since you likely have the forwarder set up through the G Mail web-interface, it should be easy to set up a rule on your Mac to just automatically trash or archive any G Mail messages that come to that account but the account would still be available for outgoing messages in the manner I suggested earlier. Not pretty, but should work fine. I'll investigate a little more to see if I can figure out a different solution, but that's my best suggestion for the moment. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 23, 2018, at 09:10, Alex Hall <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The list goes to my Gmail account, but Gmail has been set up to forward all messages to iCloud for years. I always respond with iCloud, so people will use that address instead. In the case of this list, though, I have to respond with Gmail. Yet, I still receive the messages through iCloud, and don’t have Gmail configured on my Mac at all so I don’t receive duplicate messages. I want to send from Gmail in only the case of messages going to this list. Should I set up something differently? Could I set up Gmail, but set it to never receive email while still being allowed to send? > On Jun 23, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > hi, > > I would assume that you then have two different accounts in Mail so that one > version of you is used for most messages, and the other is for this specific > list. So, when addressing the mail message, keep tabbing through the fields > after filling out the To and Subject etc, right after the Subject field > should be a pop-up where you can choose which account to send from. This > will re-assign the outgoing configuration to the specific account you wish to > send from. If it is a reply, it's usually two shift-tabs from the message > area to reach this item. > > Later... > > > Tim Kilburn > Apple Teacher > (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 23, 2018, at 08:25, Alex Hall <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > On the Mac, how do I force a mail account that usually uses one SMTP server > to sometimes use a different one? I’ve configured the second server already, > but I don’t know how to choose which server I use. I normally want to send > with the default, but when sending to a certain email list, I have to send as > the other SMTP. Long story, but no, I can’t change the address registered > with the list. 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