Just going back through some historical entries in my own user activity report. I see I added my address as a cc to this in 2004. :-)
Thanks, Petr, for your comment 77. We do currently have support for multiple SMTP servers, and we do have the ability to specify which server should be used for which account and/or identity, however the original description of this RFE still remains valid, and suggest changing subject to: Ability to automatically failover to one or more alternate SMTP servers I know of no extension which currently provides this functionality. More specifically: Assume two incoming accounts: j...@shmoe.tld (personal email) jsh...@company.tld (business email) Now assume three SMTP servers: smtp.shmoe.tld smtp.joes-isp.tld smtp.company.tld When Joe sends mail from home, he'll first try his own SMTP server (smtp.shmoe.tld), but if that host is offline, he'd want to define his ISP as a failover (smtp.joes-isp.tld) (assuming SPF records were in place and such, so that mail coming from his ISP would not look like spam to the recipient). Likewise, when sending work email from home, he might want to first try the Company server (smtp.company.tld), and if that should fail, then fall back to his ISP (smtp.joes-isp.tld), but *never* use his own domain for such outgoing email (smtp.shmoe.tld). Thus, we would need a mechanism for defining the failover order for each account and/or identity, and not simply allow failover from one server to the next per placement in the list of outgoing servers in prefs.js. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148362 Title: top smtp server in list is always used regardless of default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/148362/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
