[MlMt] Two accounts with same email address

[Tobias Kirchhofer]

On 18 May 2024, at 20:51, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

The SPF settings are correct. It is a Postfix SMTP and Exchange Online 
:-/ SPF is configured correctly to allow sending from both IP addresses.

>> 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.)

Okay, thank you, i’ll figure that out too.

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