On 16 Apr 2005 at 23:23, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > > What very-complicated setup do you have that you think this is totally > > useless for? And what do you want to happen when you reply to an e-mail? I > > prefer for the same account to be used that it was sent to. > > If I understand Bernie correctly, he has several email addresses that don't > have their own POP access, so he has them configured to forward to a > POPable mailbox. Once a message is forwarded, the downloading account > is unable to ascertain the original 'To' address (or more correctly, the SMTP > 'RCPT TO' address).
Just so! > .. In order to get around this problem, one needs as > many separate POP accounts as the number of distinct reply identities. That's just not possible unless you're content with having your email all look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [or the ever-trendy @gmail.com] or have a lot of throwaway [never used] email addresses. If you get a domain of your own, there'll be a lot of email addresses that go with it [at the least, 'postmaster@']. There are 'association' email addresses that by design are not associated with a POP box [e.g., @acm.org, @alum.mit.edu, @spunsters.com, @puzzlers.org, @admra.org, etc, etc]. I have several 'functional' email addresses besides in various domains [postmaster@, hostmaster@, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suppose if you want to set up a zillion throwaway pop boxes and then poll them all, you could get down to 1<->1 emailaddr<->pop box, but that seems like an awfully awkward mess to set up and administer. [we do that for one of our customers. Their "actual" pop boxes have names like comp01, comp02, comp03, comp03...comp45, comp46, .... and then we have their *actual* email addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc) set to forward to an appropriate compNN box. Seems like an awful lot of bother and administrative hassle for not much gain. [since as far as I can tell, the ONLY advantage of all of that hassle is to be spared the burden of selecting an identity when you 'reply' to a message.] /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.
