email clients

[martin fricke]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:15:55 +1000, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 September 2007 19:35:56 martin fricke wrote:
>> What do you mean you can't send from multiple accounts without editing
>> preferences in Thunderbird?
>>
>> I can send from any email address I have setup in Thunderbird, it's just
>> that it uses the one utgoing server - in my case my ISP SMTP mail server.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:21:07 +1000, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Hi Guys
>> >
>> > Just after a lil advice/suggestions re email clients. As I have multiple
>> > accounts the client should be able to handle sending from multiple
>> > accounts without editing the preferences for each account. One reason I
>> > don't like thunderbird. I'm currently using kmail but believe there is
>> > likely better for my needs/wants. I kinda miss the way outlook express
>> > used to handle multiple email accounts. Obviously I like clients of which
>> > support numerous plugins. So I'm inviting people to give their opinions
>> > re which client may suit me
>> >
>> > James
>
> Hi Martin
>
> 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
>
> James

At the moment I use Thunderbird to receive mail from my Hotmail, Yahoo and GoogleMail accounts and also for newsgroups. I can send messages using any of these email addresses using the one SMTP server I have setup in Thunderbird.