Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
I know it's an advertising slogan somewhere: Just do it.
Two of my 5 or 6 email addresses are from the same provider and are
totally separate, it works. Incoming and outgoing.
Incoming: Set up all three email addresses, with separate names (!)
And remember, the names are merely an internal description for your own
use, and don't have further significance.
Outgoing: Set up all three email addresses, also with separate names.
I have several addresses in my configs, including two that are on the
same service.
Using the account setup wizard is pretty simple. File -> New - >
Account . Once you enter your email address and password (and choosing
between POP and IMAP) is good about figuring out the rest, including
server name, port, and encryption methodology. The UI display is perhaps
a little different than Thunderbird, but not dramatically, and I believe
that the underlying mechanics are pretty much the same.
Once you have an account configured, you'll see that account along with
other accounts in the Account Settings window. Going a little bit
further down, each account has a setting for Outbound SMTP Server. I'll
come back to that in a minute.
At the very bottom of the accounts list, there's a section titled
Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings. In that list is a set of credentials
for outbound mail for each account that you've set up.
In the settings for the individual account, the outbound SMTP is
normally set to use the SMTP server that's normally associated with that
account, but you can mix and match as needed.
Thus, if I happen to have accounts for [email protected],
[email protected] and [email protected], the list of outgoing servers
should show entries for all three of those. However, if I go back to
the server settings for each of those accounts, I can adjust them, so
that if I want, I can set all three accounts to connect to the outbound
server, and authenticate as [email protected]. Technically speaking (at
least most of the time), it's not essential that each account use its
own SMTP credentials.
A different perspective on the mix-and-match... A number of years ago, I
did my personal email through an account provided by my ISP, and their
rules for limiting spam activity were that I could only send outbound
mail through their server if I was connecting from one of their IP
addresses (although I could connect both POP and IMAP for inbound mail).
This was a real problem if I needed to send mail while traveling (and
frequently working off-line, where using a web client wasn't possible).
The work-around that I came up with is that I have a friend that had an
available SMTP server, and he gave me credentials there. Thus, as long
as I was with that provider, when I traveled, I would adjust my account
to send through my friend's server, and with that, no problem sending
mail. I don't need that connection anymore, but it's still in my config
settings.
Rounding back to the original question, if you need to add an additional
account to your configs, use the wizard to set it up. The wizard will
take care of setting the necessary SMTP setup for that account, and will
correctly associate it with your POP or IMAP connection. Although it's
possible to change, as I've described above, you shouldn't need to do
so, unless you're doing something non-standard.
I can't remember how you associate the SMTP entries with the input
entries, I just looked at my setup and saw nothing explicit.
See above.
Maybe it
will ask you when you say "Reply To", maybe it is something you specify
when creating the SMTP entry. What I do know is that once you have set
it up, each input email address "knows" which output entry it should be
using. You can override it for single Replies without affecting that
setting.
If you have more than one account defined, then one of the options that
you have when you're creating mail is to use the drop-down on the From:
line to choose which account (and which return address to use).
If you're viewing a folder in an account, the default will be the From:
line (and associated outbound SMTP link), but you can change, as needed.
If you happen to be viewing something in Local Folders, or are
launching a message while viewing a web page, the address uses will be
the default account, i.e., the account that was defined first.
I occasionally have problems in this area. There may be times when I'm
viewing a web page, and I press Ctrl-M to send a new message. My first
account is my work account, and in that context, if I'm sending a
message, I often want to be sending it from one of my personal accounts.
If I'm working quickly, I may forget to change the return address to the
preferred account, and then the recipient ends up getting a message that
shows my work account in the From: line.
Hope this clarifies a bit.
Smith
Just set it up, it works.
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