[MlMt] Two accounts with same email address

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-05-18 at 13:36:43 UTC-0400 (Sat, 18 May 2024 19:36:43 +0200)
Tobias Kirchhofer via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hi,
>
> I have two accounts that have the same sender address with different 
> SMTP servers. It is not possible to choose which account I send from 
> with the "shared" email address. It always falls back to one of the 
> two (always the same one). I'm sure this should work, but I don't know 
> how :-)

I'm not so sure it should work...

These days it is relatively unusual for a sender address to be 
legitimately used via diverse paths. In many cases it will result in 
mail being distrusted at the delivery end due to issues with 
authentication mechanisms like SPF and DKIM.

> Can anyone enlighten me?

One possible messy workaround: add a different second bogus address to 
each account with the shared sending address, which will cause MM to 
reformat how addresses are shown in the "From:" pull-down menu. See the 
attached (severely compressed) image. It shows my 11 configured 
accounts, including 2 ("Personal" and "GMail") which each have 2 
specific addresses configured (in addition to each having "address 
patterns" configured.)

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Bill Cole
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