On 16 Apr 2005 at 11:18, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > > No -- an identity in Peg can store POP/SMTP info, but it only stores > > *ONE* set of 'identity' info [stationary, sig(s), format, reply-to, from- > > address, organization, etc] > > So how is this different from OE? OE calls them mail "accounts", and > each mail account can have its own 'From' address and display name, > POP server, SMTP server, sig, etc.
I don't think I ever did say it was any different from OE, did I? > .. OE remembers which account a message > was received by (regardless of folder filtering), and when I hit reply > it will use the account information associated with that received email. That's what Pegasus doesn't do, and as I said I haven't a clue how that works: with 20 identities [or 'accounts'] coming from four POP mailboxes, how does it figure out that this message is associated with THIS identity and that message is associated with THAT identity. For folk with with very simple email setups, you can sort-of get by with the assumption that there's a 1<->1 mapping between but even the standard alumni- or organization- forwarding or simple-web-hosting will run afoul of that. [simple for instance: "fantasyfarm.com" doesn't exist as a mail host: it is MX'ed to one of my mailboxes. When I pick up mail from that mailbox, there is *NO*WAY* to know whether the message was addressed to the mailbox, to [EMAIL PROTECTED], to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other address... and so there's no way that my email client, no matter WHAT it is, could possibly guess what identity to use if I were to 'reply' to such a message. > > And so when I generate an outgoing message, I have to tell Peg which > > From, reply-to, sig, etc to use for that message. > > I thought we were talking about replies, not generating new messages. In terms of what we've been talkinga about, those are the same in Pegasus. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
