[MlMt] Selecting default SMTP server

[Antonio Leding]

“…it failed to send…”

I haven’t tried that command but given these are “experimental”, 
YMMV…

Glad to see the SMTP server part works though - that’s the one that is 
really useful for me…

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On 24 Jul 2021, at 20:43, Ralph Alvy wrote:

> 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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