[MlMt] Selecting default SMTP server

[Ralph Alvy]

However, if I put my Fastmail SMTP server in my Tuffmail IMAP setup, it works fine. But from what you said about using a "foreign" SMTP server with an account is not advisable, I changed it back to its own SMTP server and just live with it.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021, at 8:11 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> I have a Tuffmail account and new Fastmail account. I found that mail is 
> automatically sent via the Tuffmail smtp and I had no choice. I can't 
> seem to tell Mailmate what account I'm sending from. I will soon delete 
> the Tuffmail account.
> 
> On 24 Jul 2021, at 19:47, Bill Cole wrote:
> 
> > On 2021-07-24 at 21:15:55 UTC-0400 (Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:15:55 -0700)
> > Ralph Alvy <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> > is rumored to have said:
> >
> >> If I have more than one Source Acct, how do I tell Mailmate with SMTP 
> >> server to use for outgoing mail?
> >
> > Each account has its own exclusive SMTP Server settings. This is good 
> > because on the modern Internet, it is not feasible to send mail 
> > claiming to be from a particular address through any arbitrarily 
> > chosen mail server. It might work, but more likely your mail would be 
> > rejected or worse: dropped silently.
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Bill Cole
> > bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
> > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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