Sorry for the delay in following up on this thread. Chris wrote: >What would happen if you created a dummy email account in Firefox?
I think you meant to type Thunderbird. I tried your idea, which Alan also referred to, and it worked. The problem I had in the past on an older version of Thunderbird is I would have more than one email account sharing the same inbox, and it would give an error when I tried to get mail. I don't set accounts up that way anymore but retained the idea in my head that I'd have the problem. So you've provided a usable work around. Brian's idea also worked and is probably the one I'll continue to use as I didn't know you could do that with identities. It's always better to have options when solving problems so thank you all for your ideas and prompt replies. It is much appreciated! :D Kind regards, Todd 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 On Jan 11, 10:42 am, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > You do not need a dummy account or fake POP server. Click "Manage > identities" to add additional email addresses to an existing account. > You can use separate SMTP servers with each. > > On Jan 8, 12:40 pm, taa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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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