email clients

[James Takac]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 20:53:41 Minarwan (Min) wrote:
> To my knowledge we still need a default SMTP account to send mails using
> Thunderbird when we have multiple accounts.
> You will get a problem if your SMTP needs a full email address to
> authenticate (before you use it).
>
> In my situation, I use my university's (ISP's at home) SMTP to send
> mails from multiple accounts using Thunderbird. They do not require me
> to use a full email address to use so I have no problem at all.
>
> As for choosing which email address you want to use, no worries at all,
> when you create a new email the "from" bar will will let you choose what
> email address you want to use.
>
> Minarwan
>
> James Takac wrote:
> > 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

Hi Minarwan

Thx for pointing that out. Obviously it's improved somewhat since last time I 
used it. I also guess that if I were to install it, I'd be better off with 
the latest edition as opposed to the repository version?

James