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Use multiple SMTP servers with one email address in Mail.app
Authored by: ravigv on May 16, '03 12:16:38PM

There is a much simpler (or less technical) way of achieving the same effect, unless I'm missing something.
1) Go to preferences and create a new account.
2)Choose a unique & appropriate description, but fill the email Address and full name sections out as per your original account.
3)Makeup an Incoming mail server, eg fake0.
4) fill in user name and password anyway you like.
5) Create or choose your alternate smtp mailserver.

Bingo, Your alternate account without a text editor. (This is also the solution if you have multiple aliases for the one email account.)

Mail will not let you have two accounts with the both same incoming-mail-server & username because this is what it uses for the mailbox folder/name. It will let you have two accounts with the same email address for reply-to.

The only caveat is that the original text editor version may work better if the SMTP server requires pop-authentication.



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Step 6 Very Important
Authored by: ravigv on May 16, '03 12:20:52PM

OOOPS...
6) Go to the Advanced Tab and unselect "Include when automatically checking for new mail".
7) click OK



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Use multiple SMTP servers with one email address in Mail.app
Authored by: macandrew on May 16, '03 12:34:19PM

Anothe solution: obtain and use Location X, a shareware Location Manager that is equivalent to the OS 9 function. Not only can you use it to change SMTP servers, but much else besides. http://homepage.mac.com/locationmanager/



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Use multiple SMTP servers with one email address in Mail.app
Authored by: smorr on May 16, '03 12:41:59PM

Thanks for the feed back. It seems that when I do this I get an error message that this mailbox is already in use and it doesn't let me create the account with a existing email address. Hence my technical workaround. Could this be a problem within my mail.app?



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Why you are geting email address conflicts...
Authored by: ravigv on May 16, '03 01:58:22PM

Don't know is the short answer. Mail.app 1.2.5 seems only interested in the mail account directories being unique (~/Library/Mail/for@example)

My mail.app creates mail folders called <username>@<incoming mail server> which doesn't have to be the email address. So when I follow the steps above substituting "fake" for the incoming mail server, the username & the password it will check for a folder called "fake@fake" rather than the email address ie. somebody@swiftdsl.com.au.

Infact even if I duplicate two accounts exactly and just change the account directory (under the advanced tab - only possible when you first create an account) it will let me create the account, and only igve me a warning about the host/user names being the same.

Anyway Joshua's alternate solution certainly seems the more elegant than mine anyway, but then I am working with aliases not multiple smtp servers so it doesn't really help me.



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