Re: [Evolution] SMTP Question

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:42 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> >  BUT, I'm not saying that I won't be 'authenticating' if that makes
> > sense. What I meant was I have an smtp provider that needs me to
> > 'connect' with my user id/password to send mail - ok - so now I have
> > connected, can I send mail with a 'from' of a different domain?
>
> THAT depends on the ISP.  I know some that require the From: address to
> be one of their domains, I also know others that don't care.  I've also
> seen some that silently change the From: address to match the account
> that is authenticating. 
>
> >  Take my  free yahoo account as the example. Can I use Evo and set my
> > NON yahoo accounts to use the yahoo smtp access to send my mail for
> > those as well?
>
> I don't know about Yahoo - I can only suggest you try it and see.
OK - suck it and see - that's where I think I had got to, when I had the problem with the SMTP setting on my test account. I'll get back to that and try again.
> >  Or are you saying that for each 'mail' account I should (must?) use a
> > separate SMTP connection? 
>
> No, not at all - but the usefulness of it depends on the server.
Thanks again for you help.
> P.
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