On Sun, 9 Nov 2025, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:
There are a couple of correspondents of mine which do not receive my messages
sent in my usual ways. For them I have to use a special role (which sends via
a specific smtp server).
It is quite easy to do that when creating a new message or replying.
However sometimes I have to postpone a message to them. When I resume
composition (M C P) the role is not preserved, nor it seems I can choose the
role.
Currently the workaround I've found is only to Export the postponed message,
compose a new one with the wished role, and read in the exported file.
I there a simpler way ?
I don't think so. Pretty much exclusively I use roles to set the from
address. So I can edit it after the event if necessary and it remembers
it while a message is postponed.
But there doesn't seem to be a way to select a role after you've started
composing a mail. I wasn't even aware of the "Use SMTP server" setting
in the roles until I went to look for it so I hadn't come across this
particular quirk.
I run a local MTA - and I do stuff like that there and point alpine at
my local MTA instead. Not sure if you'd call that simpler or not.
I also use a remote pinerc.
so it's
alpine -> remote imap server -> local mail server -> external mail server -> ...
Not sure if you'd class that as "easier". All my incoming mail is sorted
into folders using my MDA rather than in alpine.
Tim.
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