Hello Bernie, Replies mixed in.
On Saturday 16 April 2005 8:55 pm, you wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2005 at 20:15, Gaffer wrote:
> > Can we at least agree about what we mean when we say "Identity" !
> >
> > To me this is simply an Email address that I use. It could be
> > one of many that I am known by.
>
> That's basically what it is in Pegasus: that is, a collection of
> settings that are used when you _originate_ an email message.
I am happy with that.!
> > The same thing when we refer to a Mail server.
> >
> > To me this is the machine that allows me to send Emails and
> > usually belongs to my ISP.
>
> That's the "SMTP Server" and you may use different ones depending
> on particulars of your email or where you're currently connected/
> dialed into.
This too !
> > .. It also 'may' have a POP mailbox on it, from
> > which I would collect Email sent to me at my ISP's domain.
>
> Well, two things: first, POP and SMTP have nothing to do with one
> another. I use some SMTP servers that have *NO* pop mailboxes for
> me associated with them. And I have a POP box that doesn't have an
> SMTP server I can use associated with it (obviously it'll accept
> incoming email for me, but I can't use it to send outgoing mail
> because of authentication problems -- I'd have to VPN in (which I
> very rarely do) before it'd let me use it for outgoing email).
I'm fine with this as well !
> Second, pop mailboxes can collect email from *ANYWHERE*. Not
> necessarily *JUST* email "sent to me at my ISP's domain".
This I find difficult. If you send an Email to me, it goes to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it be more correct to say that a POP mailbox
can receive Email from anywhere. 'Collect' implies that the mailbox
takes an active part somehow.
>As I mentionednm (in the other message), my fantasyfarm.com email
>goes to a third-party POP mailbox [since there aren't any servers
> associated with fantasyfarm.com]. And there are a *BUNCH* of other
> email addresses I use from time to time that all converge on that
> same mailbox... (e.g., my @acm.com and @bu.edu and
> @northeastern.edu, a bunch of [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses).
I am happy with the concept of "Mail Forwarding" from one domain to
another
> I think this is one of the big sources of confusion in this
> discussion: many folk here think there is some mapping between
> "identities" (that is, "email addresses that I use when I send
> email") and "pop mailboxes" (that is, places at which I receive
> email) and presume that you can figure out something about the
> identity to use for a particular message just from which POP
> mailbox it was picked up from.
I agree. The only mapping that can take place at the client is by the
association of a folder and identity. So if I send an Email from the
Win-Home folder it gets the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
:End of part One.
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
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