On 16 Apr 2005 at 16:23, Rick Cogan wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 15:55
> 
> 
> >...
> > As I've asked [a couple of times now], *HOW* do those fancy-email-clients
> > actually manage to guess the right "identity" to use for a message when
> > the only info at hand is which POP mailbox it happened to be picked up
> > from???  Pegasus doesn't even *try* and that's fine by me, since I can't
> > see how it could be done at all.
> >...
> 
> In OE it's not the POP mailbox that it uses that's significant, but the 
> account that requested the download. When replying it defaults to using that 
> account's SMTP setup to send the reply.

Ah, I see now.  That is totally useless for my situation but is probably 
adequate for folks with very-simple email setups.  Unless you have 
exactly one email address associated with each POP mailbox, the 
POP=>account mapping is just not useful.

  /Bernie\

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