[MlMt] Selecting default SMTP server

[Ralph Alvy]

Yes. I did that and it works fine. Thanks.

I also tried the command line to ignore the SMTP of the Offline account, 
but it failed to send.

On 24 Jul 2021, at 20:20, Antonio Leding wrote:

> Did you not see the instructions I sent re: using a specific SMTP 
> server per account?
>
> - - -
>
> On 24 Jul 2021, at 20:19, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>
>> 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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