[MlMt] Easy method to change IMAP\SMTP account password

[Pete Resnick]

On 1 Sep 2020, at 22:45, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 1 Sep 2020, at 21:22, Antonio Leding wrote:
>
>> Or perhaps a better plan of attack is to decouple the SMTP account 
>> definition from the actual IMAP accounts…in essence the ability to 
>> create SMTP account profiles that then can be attached to a given 
>> IMAP account.  Think of how awesome this would be.  Define the SMTP 
>> server account once and then use it across several IMAP accounts.
>
> That is a very different and better feature. It has been years since I 
> last suggested it to Benny, and I don't remember how or if he 
> responded. The one downside I can see with it comes from supporting 
> Apple Mail users. Users who don't have a strong understanding of how 
> email works are sometimes confused by its implementation.

Another problem is that some sites are starting to configure the DMARC 
anti-spam protocol to reject email where the SMTP server does not match 
the From: address.

pr
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