On 17 Apr 2005 at 1:10, Gaffer wrote: > On Saturday 16 April 2005 8:55 pm, you wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2005 at 20:15, Gaffer wrote:
> > 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. Right -- The correspondence of email addresses and POP mailboxes is many- to-many, **NOT** one-to-one. > > 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. Exactly right: that's why I've been arguing that having your email client do some kind of automatic assignment of incoming email to identities *cant*work* except for folk with the very simplest of email setups... /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]
