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

[Bill Cole]

On 2 Sep 2020, at 10:39, Pete Resnick wrote:

> 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.

That's a piece of the confusion I've seen: generally a misunderstanding 
of the fact that there are multiple mostly-unseen mechanisms that should 
constrain how and where one submits a particular email message. DMARC, 
DKIM, SPF, and bespoke site-specific rules (which may or may not be 
explicit) can break mail in ways that aren't very transparent to 
senders.

I will spare the list any debate of whether DMARC is an anti-spam 
mechanism or merely an anti-forgery tool.

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Bill Cole
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