Email Client Help
Discussion
meeja said:Outlook XP and beyond certainly would, you'd need to set up an account for each SMTP server you wanted to use, then choose that account to send with.
Long story, so I'll cut to the point!
Is there an email client that will allow multiple SMTP servers to be specified for one email address?
PS: This is for a particular user, and not intended to be used for spamming!
Think you need to explain a little more clearly exactly what you're after, Meeja, as recent versions of Outlook and indeed Thunderbird allow you to use several email SMTP accounts and pick which one you want to use for a paticular message. If you want to be able to send a message from meeja@some.provider but have it sent via the SMTP server at some.other.provider, you might have more trouble, as that would look like a bit of potential spamming.
I guess there's nothing to stop you setting the reply address for your meeja@some.other.provider account to be meeja@some.provider, but the mail would still look like it had come from meeja@some.other.provider
I guess there's nothing to stop you setting the reply address for your meeja@some.other.provider account to be meeja@some.provider, but the mail would still look like it had come from meeja@some.other.provider
pdV6 said:
If you want to be able to send a message from meeja@some.provider but have it sent via the SMTP server at some.other.provider, you might have more trouble, as that would look like a bit of potential spamming.
Yep.
This is what we want to achieve, again, it is not for spamming, but to make life easier for one of our users.
Any help gratefully recieved!
I'm not sure if Outlook allows this but Oulook Express, Pegasus and many others, geared for home users, allow you to setup multiple email settings under one account. They then allow you to download mail from each server into one Inbox and select which server and email address you want to send your email from.
Be aware that some SMTP servers will not allow you to send email from them if you are not on the same network (even if you have a valid account and correct sender address). This is to stop spammers.
>> Edited by icamm on Friday 4th February 14:01
Be aware that some SMTP servers will not allow you to send email from them if you are not on the same network (even if you have a valid account and correct sender address). This is to stop spammers.
>> Edited by icamm on Friday 4th February 14:01
meeja said:Sorry, to clarify, the terms accounsts is used in Outlook for different e-mail accounts, not different Windows logins.
Unfortunately that won't help, as it is for a user's single login, and multiple accounts would cause extra headaches.
Much easier if our user is able to open the mail programme, then select which account (or smtp setting) they are sending a particular email from.
For example if I want to send an e-mail I hit the "New" button and it will default to my standard work settings (and signature), I can then pick the e-mail account from the message window using the "Accounts" drop-down button.
I currently run 10 accounts like this and it works quite well.
Tripps said:
For example if I want to send an e-mail I hit the "New" button and it will default to my standard work settings (and signature), I can then pick the e-mail account from the message window using the "Accounts" drop-down button.
I currently run 10 accounts like this and it works quite well.
Agreed this could work, but it would involve an extra mouse click from the user, and we are trying to simplify things to an extent where an extra mouse click/extra user decision is not an option.
I'm sure we all know users like this.......
pdV6 said:
If you want to be able to send a message from meeja@some.provider but have it sent via the SMTP server at some.other.provider, you might have more trouble, as that would look like a bit of potential spamming.
But Outlook will still let you do this and at the end of the day the user still has to select which SMTP server he wants to use so whats the diff between selecting an SMTP server and selecting an account (which already has the SMTP server set in it)?
>> Edited by arcturus on Friday 4th February 18:05
meeja said:
Agreed this could work, but it would involve an extra mouse click from the user, and we are trying to simplify things to an extent where an extra mouse click/extra user decision is not an option.
I'm sure we all know users like this.......
So in essence you want the user to just be able to compose the email and hit send - then you want the software to work through a number of prespecified smtp settings until it gets to the one that corresponds to his current connection (dialup, office etc?) You need something like Autoroute, built for just this sort of thing and he can continue to use current email client that he is already used to.
www.mailutilities.com/ars/
The smtp setting in the mail client is set to "localhost" after this the additional software takes over and works out from current ip address which connection and therefore which settings to use from ones you have preassigned.
Hope this works for you.
>> Edited by Prof Higgins on Friday 4th February 19:00
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