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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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