On 16 Apr 2005 at 23:47, Rick Cogan wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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? > And I explained how OE does it. I wasn't trying to sell you on using it for > your situation. > > I never said it was a one-to-one relationship of POP to account. In OE you > define the POP and SMTP for each e-mail account. I have 10 different e-mail > accounts defined for 4 different POP servers and the HTTP hotmail server. > When you reply to a given message it knows which e-mail account it was sent > to not just which POP server was used to download it and will use that > account for the reply. How does it know that??? Since there are 10 accounts and 4 pop servers, it is obvious that several of the accounts must share a pop server... if so, then when you pick up email from THAT pop server, how does OE guess which 'account' messages are supposed to get? > What very-complicated setup do you have that you think this is totally > useless for? Well, I have a particular POP mailbox and email addresses to something like 25 different email addresses end up in that POP mailbox. I have several domains I oversee, for example, and so I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] going into the box. I also have several 'organization' email addresses [e.g., I had an "acm.org" one and several 'alumni' addresses] which go into the box. And a whole lot more. When I pick up email from that pop box, there's no way I can see to sort out which intended-account can be associated with the messages... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
