Multiple SMTP servers..?

Screwtape

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Aug 31, 2001, 7:59:44 AM8/31/01

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I see in "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" an "Advanced..." button that lets me
tell Mozilla about multiple SMTP servers, with a vague warning about
disruption to message-sending. What exactly does it do?

Now, I have a need for such a feature as this. I have a laptop
(PowerBook G4, MacOS 9.1) which I use at home and at work. At home I'm
connected to a dial-up ISP, and need to use a certain SMTP server. At
work, I'm connected by LAN to a broadband ISP, and have to use a
different SMTP.

Now, since Mozilla doesn't respect the MacOS Internet Settings Control
Panel (and thus Location Manager), whenever I go from home to work or
vice versa, I have to change my SMTP server. I imagined that if I
defined multiple SMTP servers in the Advanced window, Moz would try all
the ones in the list until it found one through which it could send
mail. This doesn't happen - it tries the one marked "(default)", and
then gives up.

Is there a better way to achieve the functionality I'm looking for?
Having one SMTP server for all accounts certainly beats every other MUA
I've used, but Moz could go so much further...

Screwtape,
...as always, Mozilla sucks, but it sucks less than anything else. :)

Sebastian Späth

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Aug 31, 2001, 12:13:52 PM8/31/01

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Screwtape wrote:

> I see in "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" an "Advanced..." button that lets me
> tell Mozilla about multiple SMTP servers, with a vague warning about
> disruption to message-sending. What exactly does it do?

You can configure each mail account to use a different SMTP server.
Configure it somewhere in the accounts under advanced.

Sebastian

Screwtape

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Sep 1, 2001, 5:19:41 AM9/1/01

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Ahh.. so it's just a list of possibles. Well that's not fun, I want
every mail account to use the same SMTP server. :(

Screwtape.

Holger Metzger

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Sep 1, 2001, 5:40:48 AM9/1/01

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Screwtape schrieb:

> Ahh.. so it's just a list of possibles. Well that's not fun, I want
> every mail account to use the same SMTP server. :(

That's no problem either.

Got to Mail/News account settings.
Choose a Mail-Server, on the right botton (next to "compose messages in
HTML format") is a button "Advanced", here you can control which SMTP
server to use.

Holger
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Håkan Waara

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Sep 1, 2001, 6:59:23 AM9/1/01

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Screwtape wrote:

If you have only one server specified in the SMTP server list, it will
use that one for all accounts by default.

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Peter Lairo

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Sep 3, 2001, 8:05:33 AM9/3/01

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Screwtape wrote:

>> You can configure each mail account to use a different SMTP server.
>> Configure it somewhere in the accounts under advanced.
>
>
> Ahh.. so it's just a list of possibles. Well that's not fun, I want
> every mail account to use the same SMTP server. :(

Just set up two or more SMTP servers. Have all accounts use the
"default" server (under: edit - account settings - select an account -
advanced - Server: "always use default").

Then when you move between home and work, go to: "outgoing server" -
advanced, and set the appropriate server as the "default". All mail
accounts will use that new "default" server then :)

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Peter Lairo