On 15 Apr 2005 at 11:18, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > >> Does Pegasus ALWAYS use the same account for a reply > >> that the message came into? > > > > AFAIK, Pegasus doesn't remember the account (you mean "identity" here, I > > suspect, yes?) a message came in via. When you reply, Pegasus just uses > > the current identity [although you can select a different one in the > > reply dialogue box]. > > That would certainly be a major shortcoming for me since I have over > a dozen active email accounts, and I need to be able to reply from > each without having to think about under which "identity" the > message was received.
There's a confusion here in Jim's slightly-wrong (I think) description of how Peg works. [but the simple answer is: I don't think Peg will do what you want]. Pegasus had "identities". But while Peg associates POP servers with identities, it *doesn't*keep*that*info*. Pegasus doesn't actually "POP email" -- it retrieves email in a two stage process. By *any* means [usually Peg's built-in POP client, but you can do it any way at all, copying messages brute force] you download email messages, one-message-per-file into Pegasus's "mailbox" directory. Then when Pegasus "scans" its mailbox it simply sucks up any and all files that show up in that directory, regardless of where they came from. AFAIK, there is *NOTHING* in the stored-in-the-mailbox message files even to indicate which POP server it came from, much less which identity might have been associated with that POP server [which would problematic for someone like me: I have something like 20 identities and only four accounts, so [obviously] many of the identities filter their email through "shared" POP accounts]. And yes, I occasionally confuse a correspondent who emails me at one email address but gets a reply from me from a different email address. In my case, there's *NO* deterministic way to avoid that problem [!! -- because of the way POP works.. the SMTP envelope info isn't available] so Peg's behavior in this regard was never much of an issue for me. However: in Peg, you can associate an identity with a folder, and so if you pick up your email and can *sort* it [by account or however you can manage to split it up], then it works fine: I could, for example, filter email sent to me at my college-faculty email address into a "college" folder, and associate my college-faculty-identity with that folder, and then it would work pretty much as you were suggesting -- a reply to a mesasge in that folder would [by default, but I could override it] use my college-identity. As for replying [back to the original thread]: Pegasus uses the "current identity" for displaying the message and as the default identity for replying [which means that that reply will be sent using the SMTP server associated with that identity]. But in the reply dialogue box you can change that *AND* in the message editor you can change that: Peg will actually use the SMTP server settings associated with the identity *USED* for the message [default, or what you may have changed it to] at the point you say "send it". YOu can even change it in the outbound-queue as long as it isn't in 'final form'. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
