email clients

[David Whyte]

>
> It was a while back when I used thunderbird. Sending a mail then oft meant
> changing the default server in order to send from another account which I
> felt was a pain. Do you still have to edit the mail server in order to send
> from another account? That one server back then was linked to one email
> account, i.e. one smtp account. Then I had to edit it to reflect the server
> (email account) I needed to send through. And when you're on multiple email
> lists and some expect mail to come from certain email addresses. Well, it
> just didn't work back then. Maybe they've improved it since the year + since
> I last used it

It has been a while since I Thunderbirded, but back then, despite only
having one SMTP server field, I was always able to specify the account
that I sent the mail from so it appeared to the receiver to be from
either my Optus account or my Hotmail account or my student account
etc.