[MlMt] Selecting default SMTP server

[Bill Cole]

On 2021-07-24 at 23:58:59 UTC-0400 (Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:58:59 -0700)
Ralph Alvy <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Bill,
>
> I really don't understand what you mean here. When I send an email 
> with Mailmate, it grabs the SMTP server from my old Tuffmail account, 
> even if it's offline. But all my mail is coming to my Fastmail 
> account. What would be wrong with putting my Fastmail SMTP server in 
> my Tuffmail account setup? I never CHOOSE an act to send from. I just 
> tell Mailmate to do a New Message.

Do you not have a pull-down menu in your Composer windows that lets you 
pick the From address?


>
> Ralph
>
> 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.
>>
>>
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