Hello List,
this is my try to describe how to travel around and nevertheless send
your e-mail from one e-mail-address using different SMTP-servers.
It is not I want anybody here to tell how to do this, but to describe
it to Dwight who has this problem AND publish it for others with
similar problems in future, so they can catch it from the
maillist-archive.
The following instructions presume you're using TB! :-)
1.) Create an account for every SMTP-server you want be able to use
for sending mail. (Background: different ISP only allow using their
SMTP if you're dialed in into THEIR network, so someone may need
several SMTP-configurations, depending on the actual location of the
notebook / mobile computer)
2.) Most important thing while creating accounts are the correct
SMTP-servers. While configuring them it might be a good idea to set
them using specified dial-up connections. This might avoid trouble
later with windows dial-up :-)
3.) In "From information" i naccount setup type either THE ONE
e-mail-address you want to use EVERYTIME in future or ISP/Connection
specific e-mail-address/information. The only difference is the use of
one macro more in later steps.
4.) you're done *ggg*
... OK ... mostly done :-)
Until now everything should work without problems (test e-mail-sending
from different accounts!). Now the part for sending mail from a
specific address:
If you decided to enter the same address in every account it's quite
simple:
Scenario: You receive an email with account_1 to your address
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and want to answer with this address but are not
able to send mail via SMTP of account_1.
Solution: Hit "Reply". After opening of the "Reply" window immediately
do: "Options" / "Active Account" and choose the account you're able to
send mail from. We assume it's account_2. The mail-template may
change, but that's another point. Correct / add everything in the mail
body needed and send the mail. It should be sended with the
SMTP-server of account_2.
If you've decided _NOT_ to use identically e-mail-addresses in all
accounts it's not much more difficult.
Scenario: You receive an email with account_1 to your address
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and want to answer with this address but are not
able to send mail via SMTP of account_1.
Solution: Hit "Reply". After opening of the "Reply" window immediately
do: "Options" / "Active Account" and choose the account you're able to
send mail from. We assume it's account_2. Make sure in menu "View"
"From" is selected. It should be the very first header line you see.
Enter the correct e-mail-address in this field. "The correct" means:
the address you want to become shown in recipient mail client as
"From:".
As long as you don't have typed anything in the mail-body the template
refreshes to the values you added in From when you've used a %FromName
or %FromAddr macro in the template.
If you find it to difficulty to change From manually (maybe because
it's simply to long? *g*) there's a simple solution:
Create a quick template, I'd suggest to name it "from_me". The content
should be at least
%From='"My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
the quotes around 'My Name' are optional.
Now you can after changing active account go directly to the message
body and type 'from_me' + <Ctrl>+Space and the From-address changes.
The negative aspect of this is: %FromName & %FromAddr macros are not
updated this way.
so you may want to extend the QT to contain:
%From='"My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'%-
My Name mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or however the second line looks in your normal templates.
Than after changing active account delete the changed footer / sig /
what-ever-part-in-your-mail-contains-this-macro'ed-informations
and type 'from_me' (without quotes!) there and press <Ctrl>+Space.
Your sig get's updated, your from-line too.
OK ... written enough to start the discussion and for solving simple
problems. If your e-mail-address gets re-written by your ISPs SMTP
there must be used an other solution like freemail-server.
This is just a small and fast overview of the topic/problem, so let's
extend it and perfect the solution in discussion.
So far ... correct my if I are somewhere wrong or there's a better
solution for something special.
Have a nice day
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Regards
Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The Bat! v1.53 on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2)
Make it so!
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