Chris, you beat me to it.
In fact I have had just such a dummy account set in Thunderbird for years. The non-existent POP server has never been polled for mail. On Jan 10, 12:49 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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