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An even easier way
Authored by: mike3k on Dec 19, '05 11:09:52AM

When you create an email account, enter a list of addresses separated by commas as the return address, for example:

myname@domain1.com,anothername@domain1.com,myname@domain2.com

All of those addresses will appear in the return address menu even though you only created a single account.



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An even easier way
Authored by: SOX on Dec 19, '05 11:34:48AM

THe issue is separating the outbound and inbound function.
When I move around I have different ISPs. Sometimes I can't even use one of the ISPs because for example, it's web-mail only (not POP) or the building I'm in blocks downloads on port 110. I'd still like to be able to compose an e-mail with an given reply-to address regardless of the accessibility of inbound mail.



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Authored by: xSmurf on Dec 19, '05 05:14:39PM

Maybe you could use ssh to tunnel port 110?
I do that a lot, my school blocks everything except 80 8080 and 443. I already use 80 and 8080 (well I'd used 443 but it's not as important) so I run ssh on port 443. This also has the advantage that 443 (SSL) is normally encrypted and so is SSH making it a bit more difficult for the sysadmins to figure me out... been running like this for the past semester with no problems. But maybe you wanna check with your IT guy first (else you decided to put a prank on him and replace his coffee sugar with salt last 1st of April ;o)

Check around, there are a gazilion hints for tunneling.

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incoming/outgoing account distinction
Authored by: sjk on Dec 19, '05 08:49:09PM

Re: THe issue is separating the outbound and inbound function.

I wish more mail apps supported distinct outgoing (SMTP) and incoming (IMAP, POP) accounts. In Mulberry, any mail address you use is associated with an identity and each identity uses a SMTP account, normally an inherited default.

Incoming IMAP or POP accounts really aren't necessary if all you want is outgoing (SMTP) functionality, but unfortunately most mail apps don't separate them like Mulberry so you end creating "dummy" accounts as a sloppy workaround for those oversimplistic implementations.



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Authored by: davidduff on Jun 07, '06 10:15:56AM

mike3k's point is a good one. i went a while using mail.app before i eventually stumbled across this.

mail has some subtle features and generally does not map cleanly to how other common mail programs work. it can be deceptive because on the surface, it appears very simple, but there's actually a good bit of complexity behind the scenes.

what's cool:

if you have multiple accounts which forward into a single account, you can just have one account setup with multiple mail addresses attached to it and you can still send mail from those addresses (w/o needing to set up "send-only" accounts) -- this was the thrust of mike3k's post.

what's a bit less cool:

it's not easy to get mail to use different smtp servers to send a message -- i.e. if you need to use a different server under different conditions. so you need to work hard to find a server that you can use from everywhere (i.e. one that supports ssl and authentication).

(afaik) even if you authenticate, you can't send mail from your .mac account unless you use <user>@mac.com as the from address, which pretty much eliminates it as a candidate for the aforementioned smtp server. this is an annoying limitation and a stupid one, as far as i am concerned.

the signature management stuff got more powerful with the tiger release, however it now appears that you can set a default signature to use for a sending account. nice, but what if you have multiple addresses attached to an account as described above? there would appear to be no way of setting signature based on the from address (which seems to be what you would want to do most of the time). or am i missing something there?



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