[MlMt] Wrong SMTP

[Michael Nietzold]

To make it 100% right you also need to escape the . like this:

`.*@example\.com`



On 23 Jan 2025, at 5:43, John Doherty wrote:

> FWIW, the manual page is here:
>
> <https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup.html>
>
> which says "The value used for this option must be a so-called regular 
> expression." Based on that, *@example.com doesn't seem like it should 
> work and would have to be .*@example.com instead, since a bare 
> asterisk is not a proper regular expression (in any RE scheme I'm 
> familiar with, anyway).
>
> Empirically, though, it seems to work fine. FWIW, .* also seems to 
> work fine.
>
> On Wed 2025-01-22 09:26 PM MST -0700, <jld at jld3.net> wrote:
>
>> If you edit the IMAP settings for your fastmail account (File->Edit 
>> IMAP Account), is there an address pattern defined and enabled? That 
>> is, if dwpost.net is your domain, you might specify *@dwpost.net. 
>> Outgoing messages with From: addresses that match the pattern should 
>> use the outgoing SMTP server defined for that IMAP account.
>>
>> Pretty sure that's how it should work, anyway, and it seems to in 
>> quick tests that I just did.
>>
>> On Wed 2025-01-22 08:51 PM MST -0700, <mm at dwpost.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I can't figure this out, and hope someone can help. Maybe I'm just 
>>> doing something dumb, but I can't see it. I'm using Version 2.0 
>>> (6203).
>>>
>>> It appears to me that MailMate is using the wrong SMTP server when I 
>>> try to send using an arbitrary email on my domain, as Fastmail 
>>> allows.
>>>
>>> FastMail allows creating a catchall address, which then allows 
>>> sending and receiving using arbitrary usernames, i.e. 
>>> <whatever>@domain.com.
>>>
>>> When I send from my regular email address on this account, i.e. my 
>>> username for the account, it sends fine.
>>>
>>> However, when I send using one of these catchall addresses in the 
>>> From field, it appears, from looking at the Activity Viewer, that 
>>> MailMate switches to using the SMTP settings for a different 
>>> account/domain, rather than the account/domain that I'm sending 
>>> from. So, I get a "Not authorised to send from this header address" 
>>> error.
>>>
>>> Any idea what's going on?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> David_______________________________________________
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