[MlMt] I can send mail from an account I've taken offline

[Eric Sharakan]

On 24 Jun 2019, at 5:00, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Jun 2019, at 19:22, Billy Youdelman wrote:
>
>> Eric Sharakan wrote:
>>
>>> The subject pretty much says it all.  I've used the contextual menu 
>>> item to place an account offline, yet if I specify the From address 
>>> of an outgoing message to be from that offline account, MM still 
>>> happily sends the message.
>>>
>>> It seems that should be blocked, with an appropriate error message.
>
> Well, historically IMAP and SMTP are two completely different things, 
> but this has changed over the years which is also reflected by the 
> account settings window in MailMate. Some IMAP/SMTP providers are also 
> kind of merging the concepts in various non-standard ways which is a 
> known problem in MailMate (duplicate sent messages).
>
> I'm not sure about what most MailMate users would expect as default 
> behavior, but MailMate does have an option for you:
>
> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmDoNotSendFromOfflineAccounts 
> -bool YES

I suppose it isn't so cut & dry, so thanks for thinking about this ahead 
of time and providing an option for folks like me!

-Eric

>
>> I don't think so.  It's nice to be able to use other addresses, which 
>> I do somewhat frequently.  A standards-observant user agent should, I 
>> believe, in this case insert a Sender header with one's actual 
>> address, but I don't think that's a major issue.
>
> MailMate does the exact same thing as if the IMAP account was 
> online... (continuation below)
>
>> I have noticed (bearing in mind I'm running a now fairly old version 
>> of Mailmate) that 'sent' copies of messages from an offline account 
>> will at least sometimes get filed in the Sent Messages folder for 
>> that account, which can make things a bit messy if one relies on 
>> having those copies.
>
> ...including saving a copy of the message in Sent Messages of the 
> account. But given that it's not online, the message cannot be 
> uploaded which could be a problem if the account is never online.
>
>> I BCC myself, as that keeps everything in the same one place.
>
> Yes, that could be a workaround to get an online copy.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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