Re: [Evolution] seperate identities and outgoing servers

[Vern McGeorge <evolution VernMcGeorge com>]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 09:46 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > 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)
Ditto that! 
> It's not that difficult to do in Evo.  But first you need to get away
> from this idea of an "identity" - it's a concept, not an integral part
> of email - different clients do things differently, if the way Evo deals
> with life is not for you, then so be it, I don't particularly like the
> way Thunderbird does things :-)
Agreed! I'm currently looking at Thunderbird (again!) as an alternative if I can't solve my mysterious Evolution problems - and I'm finding Thunderbird's single SMTP account-centric focus to be a very uncomfortable straight-jacket (again!).

-- Vern
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