Re: [Evolution] dynamically setting smtp server?

[Ian Goldberg <ian cypherpunks ca>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:31, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:18, Gil Hauer wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to dynamically change the smtp server information
> > for each account? I tend to move my laptop between work and home and
> > it's a bit of a pain editing the mail settings each time I want to send
> > mail. Is there an evironment variable or something?
>
> Use DNS. Do you have a different domain name at home and at the office?
> Try to get a cname in both domains that has the same name and points to
> the smtp server. Eg. at home on my lan I have smtp.myhome.lan pointing
> to my smtp gateway, and at the office I have smtp.myoffice.lan pointing
> at the office mail server. I then configure my mail server to be just
> "smtp", and the machine's domain (either myoffice.lan or myhome.lan)
> will get suffixed to this before getting resolved to the right mail
> server.

You can also just have a local name like "smtp" in your /etc/hosts file,
and you won't need your provider's assistance.  If you arrange that that
entry changes when you connect in different places, everything will work
transparently.  [Well, you may still have issues with authentication
being different in the two places.]

In order to get arbitrary config files changed when you log in at
different places, I use an excellent little program called
"intuitively".  It probes your network to see where you are, and based
on the results, configures whatever files you want.

   - Ian