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On Friday, January 05, 2001, 11:06:24 AM, Olivier Reubens wrote:
>>There are servers you can install on your PC. Of course, they will be
>>only active when you are currently connected, but I tried one once,
>>and it sent the messages directly to the recipient's POP server.
OR> Actually...... Why does no e-mail client have an option to deliver
OR> sent mail directly to the addressed person's SMTP server. Am I
OR> missing an obvious "NO" here, or have I just thought up a totally new
OR> type of internet application (Maybe I should file a patent for it
OR> right away <grin>)
You don't know what your addressed person's SMTP server is - there is
no way to know except by looking at RFC headers of mail they have sent
you, and then if they are using multiple ISP's like you, it would mean
nothing.
Not all servers with POP accounts have SMTP; web-based email such as
yahoo or hotmail doesn't provide an SMTP that is associated with the
domain name; and the SMTP doesn't always match the domain name.
Finally, if outsiders could access the sender's SMTP, that would be
spammer's heaven -- imagine being able to use the AOL SMTP servers to
send your spam to everyone on AOL - you not only would have the
benefit of their servers, but you would defeat whatever spam
blocking routines were build into their mail handling software.
OR> The ISP I use at home doesn't provide an ISDN service like the one we
OR> have in the office. That one in turn doesn't provide access through
OR> ADSL. The "on the road" is a special case again, since dialing either
OR> provider would be costly, and it's cheaper per minute to use the
OR> internet provided by the company I get my GSM line from...
You might just want to configure your mail options to queue outgoing
mail in the outbox rather than sending it right away. If there is one
place you are certain to be every day, then when you arrive there the
first thing to to when you arrive at that location would be to log on
and send all the messages in the outbox.
Of course, this would result in delayed reply to some email, but you
could bypass the routine if an email was particularly important to
respond to urgently.
The other thing to do - but it's obviously not very convenient, is to
simply configure TB to send to one SMTP, but change the SMTP
configuration as needed when you move around during the day. This is
obviously not convenient, but I know it can be done, because I used to
do that during a time when I did not have a reliable ISP.
-Abigail
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