Re: [Evolution] seperate identities and outgoing servers

[Leon Free <leon free free fr>]

> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:37 +0200, Leon Free wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In most mail clients (thunderbird, kmail), when creating a mail account,
> > you define an identity (i.e. a mailbox=address+incoming server) but you
> > do not need to specify a particular outgoing server (e.g. smtp). This
> > server is defined in a separate (and independent) step.
> >
> > I think this is much better than in Evolution where the configuration
> > associates a mailbox with an smtp server.
> > Suppose I have 2 mail accounts/identities:
> > * my name firstdomain net with incoming server imap.firstdomain.net
> > * my pseudo seconddomain com with incoming server pop.seconddomain.com
> > and that I can also use
> > * smtp.fisrstdomain.net in my workplace only
> > * smtp.seconddomain.com at home only
> >
> > My question is : how do I configure Evolution if I want to send a
> > message using my second identity when I'm at work (ie using
> > smtp.fisrstdomain.net)? Can I choose an outgoing server independently
> > from my mail identity (some kind of smtp selection functionality)?

> If we're talking about two different machine then no problem, but I
> assume you mean you have a single laptop. 

Right

There's no way to *directly*
> select an SMTP server other than changing your identity, but in
> principle you could do it by configuring Evo to use sendmail rather than
> SMTP, and getting sendmail to understand your location. That's really
> outside the scope of this list.

Thanks for mentioning that possibility. I think this is a critical issue
when choosing a mail client (for laptop users)

> Personally, I just use smtp.gmail.com from everywhere, but of course
> Gmail keeps a copy of every message you send (that can be viewed either
> as an advantage or a disadvantage), and may violate company policy or
> clash with corporate outgoing filters.

Right again

> poc

LF