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[Liam Proven]

On 17/09/2007, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 17 September 2007 00:00:57 Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 16/09/2007, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> > > Liam Proven wrote:
> > >
> > > [ Snip description of selecting address whence to send ]
> > >
> > > > The only caveat I can think of is that I am not sure that this
> > > > selection also changes the SMTP server that it uses.
> > >
> > >      I don't see why it should not.  Each account has an SMTP server
> > > associated with it.  Each personality, IE an address independent of an
> > > account, has an an SMTP server associated with it as well.  That would
> > > indicate to me that such a switch would indeed occur.
> >
> > I have not tested this exhaustively, but when travelling with a
> > laptop, I have encountered problems with this which suggested that
> > T'bird wasn't correctly changing SMTP servers. I don't have a variety
> > of SMTP servers available to me to test against, but this should be
> > easy to verify experimentally!
>
> When I last tried it, no matter which account I tried to send through it
> always sent via the default server which is why I had to keep editing in
> order to send via different accounts

As far as I can recall, yes, that's what it did for me, as well.

My "solution" was, when travelling with my laptop with T'bird, to use
it to /read/ my mail but send all /replies/ from Gmail. Low-tech but
reliable!

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