On Friday, May 24, 2002, Ray Dawson wrote... > This may be the one single thing that stops me using TB - which is a > pity as I was really getting it working.
> How on earth do other users manage with SMTP posting and multiple > accounts? I run several mail servers, so I don't even use my ISPs mail server for sending. Plus I run my own server at home, with an SMTP server on it, so if I ever have trouble with any of the work servers, I have a fall back server. > Surely relying on third-party applications to send mail is not > normal? I can be connected to any one of four ISPs, but they all > only allow mail to be sent if you are actually connected to them. As > things stand with TB, I have to connect to all four ISPs in turn, > just to send email. Collection is fine from all four at once. POP3 servers tend not to have restrictions set based on who you are connected to. It's normally only the SMTP server with those restrictions to stop UCE attempts, and is one of the quickest ways of stopping a SMTP server from being an open relay. > Why does TB insist on only sending mail through the smtp of the > account it was written from rather than the account it's connected > to? Because I doubt they have coded TB! to recognize which ISP you're connected to. Otherwise it'd do what Outlook has a habbit of doing if you tick the wrong box, and disconnect you from one ISP, and connect you to another. Plus some SMTP servers have a setting that won't allow relaying of another domain name that isn't theirs... for example, your have accounts with isp1.com and isp2.com... You try sending a mail from your [EMAIL PROTECTED] account via isp2.com mail server, and it might reject you because it's not a valid domain to that mail server (normally relaying denied type message). -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
