I see in "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" an "Advanced..." button that lets me
tell Mozilla about multiple SMTP servers, with a vague warning about
disruption to message-sending. What exactly does it do?
Now, I have a need for such a feature as this. I have a laptop
(PowerBook G4, MacOS 9.1) which I use at home and at work. At home I'm
connected to a dial-up ISP, and need to use a certain SMTP server. At
work, I'm connected by LAN to a broadband ISP, and have to use a
different SMTP.
Now, since Mozilla doesn't respect the MacOS Internet Settings Control
Panel (and thus Location Manager), whenever I go from home to work or
vice versa, I have to change my SMTP server. I imagined that if I
defined multiple SMTP servers in the Advanced window, Moz would try all
the ones in the list until it found one through which it could send
mail. This doesn't happen - it tries the one marked "(default)", and
then gives up.
Is there a better way to achieve the functionality I'm looking for?
Having one SMTP server for all accounts certainly beats every other MUA
I've used, but Moz could go so much further...
Screwtape,
...as always, Mozilla sucks, but it sucks less than anything else. :)
