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\ -- 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]
