Sorry, yes I meant SMTP. I actually have two email accounts that come
with my cell phone contracts. The POP server is provided by the cell
phone service, but to send mail on these accounts I have to use my ISP's
server, the cell phone service doesn't provide a SMTP server. Mail sent
from these accounts will show the correct addresses as "From" or "Reply
to", but if anyone cared to look at the headers these would show that
the mail had been sent through my ISP account.
Looking back at your original question. What would happen if you created
a dummy email account in Firefox? Set the Dummy account server settings
with all the check mail options unselected, it will then never poll the
POP server then (real or dummy server) unless you specifically click on
"Get Mail" or use the drop down list from Get mail to select this
account. The send part of the account can have anything you want as the
from address (literally anything, [email protected] if you
want!) the SMTP server can be any server that you are authorised to use,
your ISP, a googlemail account or hotmail server, as long as you can log
in and send mail from any other account in Thunderbird it should work.
In the compose Window you can then select this account as the "From"
address in place of your default account
taa wrote:
Ricky: Thanks, I didn't know about that extension. It will work for
now, but the problem is I either have to change it each time manually
or live with it being able to save only one (I'm talking about the two
Options available for the editsender extension -- I tried both). It's
not necessarily easier. Using a fake POP account is easier because
it's already there in the From dropdown list, and I could set up as
many as I'd like.
Chris: Did you mean to type SMTP instead of POP in your message? One
doesn't SEND email through POP. I think what you might be trying to
describe is a POP-before-send scenario in the cases where an SMTP
server doesn't provide authentication.
On Jan 9, 4:21 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
Most ISP POP servers will allow mails with any "From" address, real or
imaginary, to be sent as long as you are logged in to their system
either dial-up or broadband. You can't normally send any email through
an ISP POP server if you're not logged in. For example if you were to
take your laptop to a friend's house and connect to the internet though
his network and ISP you wouldn't be able to send mail through your own
ISP's POP server, but you could send through his ISP's server. To
prevent misuse, most system adminstrators will set up POP servers so
that users will have to identify themselves as authorised users either
by logging in to the system in general or specifically logging into the
POP server.
Ricky L. Parham wrote:
There's an extension that will allow you to do this much easier. It's
called "editsender". You can download it at
http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/index-en.html#editsender
Once installed, create a new email message, then you can right-click on
the "From" account and choose "Edit sender details for this message".
Then you can change the Name, email address, and organization from which
the email is being sent.
I've used it before and sent emails to myself and friends and checked
the email source and there was no mention of my actual email address
listed in the source.
I tested it with various accounts, and it works as long as your smtp
server allows relaying. I think it was the smtp servers that didn't
allow relaying that didn't allow the emails to go through. But you can
play around with it and see if it works for you.
- Ricky
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Webmail spin off extension to create fake POP server
From: taa <[email protected]>
To: Thunderbird Webmail Extension
<[email protected]>
Date: 01/08/2010 02:40 PM
Hello,
Since Webmail is already doing part of this, I'm wondering if it could
have an additional capability, or maybe as another extension entirely,
such that it could be used as a fake POP server. Here's why this would
be useful:
My primary account polls an IMAP server. There are times when I want
to use a different from email address yet send the email through the
same SMTP server. I can set up a second IMAP account but then I would
have two polling the same server, with two inboxes, etc. Instead I
would want to create a POP account with the POP server pointing to a
fake server, where the fake server would always report to Thunderbird
that it has zero messages. I would set the default SMTP server to be
the same as for my primary account. This way, when I'm composing an
email, I can choose the fake pop account in the "From" dropdown list.
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