On 2024-03-06 at 11:06:49 UTC-0500 (Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:06:49 +0000)
Quentin Stafford-Fraser <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
So...
What I really want is to have more than one SMTP server associated
with my main IMAP account, and select the outgoing server based on my
From: address. I don't think there's a way to do that?
Not obviously.
I do have a workaround that works for me, but I can't be sure that it
would for you.
I am a contributor to ASF projects and so I have a forwarding-only
apache.org address. Because I'm also a PMC member and Foundation member,
much of the mail hitting that address is fairly important to me. However
all of that mail ends up in my main personal account (which also handles
many use-specific addresses, e.g. for this list.) If I use my personal
account to send mail with the apache.org address, it will not get very
far because ASF has therir own SMTP infrastructure that I am supposed to
send through when using that address and a "-all" SPF record. So I have
an account named "Apache Send-Only" with its "email address" field set
to billc...@apache.org with no Address Pattern. The IMAP config points
to my own server, just like my main account. My main account uses
'b...@scconsult.com' as its email address, but it also has a complex
Address Pattern configured that assures that it is associated only with
addresses that both deliver to that account AND can use my SMTP server.
(I also use a different local username for authentication and final
delivery that isn't in any email address, but that's not critical and
not everyone can do that.)
The Apache account therefore ends up 'owning' the messages sent to my
ASF address. If I reply to a message that was originally sent to my ASF
address, MM knows to use that address in a reply. It uses the ASF SMTP
server to send messages, but it drops the 'Sent' copies of messages into
the right IMAP folder. The account is only subscribed to Drafts and
Sent, and
My workaround, for now, is to add another IMAP account that I
otherwise barely use, set it up with the PoBox email address and SMTP
server, and Mailmate will then send things correctly that way. I
don't need to worry that the IMAP server is empty, but it does have to
be a genuine working IMAP server, or Mailmate will mark that account
as offline.
It's a bit of a nuisance, too, because Mailmate will also save Drafts
and Sent messages onto that otherwise-unused IMAP server. So I then
need to set up rules to move everything to the correct account. And
then I need to do this same setup on all of my machines...
You can point multiple MM accounts at the same IMAP account and define
the 'special' mailboxes differently for each MM account. So as above, I
have distinct Sent and Drafts folders for the ASF traffic and tell MM to
use them for the ASF account.
So does anyone have a good way of saying "Here's an SMTP-only server
which you should use when the From address is X" ?
Interestingly Fastmail do provide exactly this facility in their (very
good) webmail interface, but when I tried switching to that, I
realised that, good as it is, it isn't Mailmate... :-)
Quentin
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