Mail.app - can't specify which smtp to use

[Martin S Taylor]

I have a couple of IMAP accounts set up, and I connect to them using mail.app

There's no problem receiving mail, but I'd like to send it using my regular
smtp Virgin account, and not send it via the IMAP server (otherwise the Sent
mailbox on the server gets clogged up too quickly).

Is there any reason I can't do this? I specify the Outgoing Mail Server
(SMTP) as my Virgin account with the proper smtp address, and I've ticked
"Use only this server", yet all mail sent from this account goes via the IMAP
server.

Any thoughts?

Martin S Taylor

[Mark Bestley]

I'm slightly confused here - IMAP servers do not send mail only SMTP do.

In my virgin account I have smtp.blueyonder.co.uk as the outgoing mail
sender (you might have ntlworld here or I suppose virgin) This was added
with the edit smtp server list. On each mail I send I can choose the
sender by chosings the email account - which is not the SMTP name.

What values have you set?

--
Mark

[zoara]

Mark Bestley <news{@bestley.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of IMAP accounts set up, and I connect to them using
> > mail.app
> >
> >
> > There's no problem receiving mail, but I'd like to send it using my
> > regular
> > smtp Virgin account, and not send it via the IMAP server (otherwise
> > the Sent
> > mailbox on the server gets clogged up too quickly).
> >
> > Is there any reason I can't do this? I specify the Outgoing Mail
> > Server
> > (SMTP) as my Virgin account with the proper smtp address, and I've
> > ticked
> > "Use only this server", yet all mail sent from this account goes via
> > the IMAP
> > server.
> >
>
> I'm slightly confused here - IMAP servers do not send mail only SMTP
> do.

Perhaps the mail is actually being sent by SMTP but also being saved to
the IMAP server's sent box? That's certainly what happens here (I send
using a Fastmail SMTP as it doesn't feck about with my headers like
Google's SMTP, but the mail is saved to Google's sent box).

-zoara-

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email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm

[Peter Ceresole]

zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:

> Perhaps the mail is actually being sent by SMTP but also being saved to
> the IMAP server's sent box? That's certainly what happens here (I send
> using a Fastmail SMTP as it doesn't feck about with my headers like
> Google's SMTP, but the mail is saved to Google's sent box).

Surely that's a settable setting?
--
Peter

[zoara]

Um, yeah, but not in the ways that are helpful to the OP.

Mail sent from my Google account will end up in my Google sent mailbox;
I can set that mail to be sent via Fastmail's SMTP or Google's SMTP, but
it will still always be "from" my Google account (from Mail's
perspective) and will still be saved in the Google sent mail box. I can
set Mail to never be saved, which would stop the mailbox filling up, but
still doesn't answer the OP's question (which is more like "can I reply
to an email that someone sent to my Google mail address, but have the
reply saved in Fastmail's outgoing mailbox", unless I'm mistaken).

I don't really know a good answer to that question.