Is this possible? if so how do I word it to research?
budhisetiawan
Mars Hill, NC Member
I am using my Laptop at several different locations....but lets just go w/ 2.
My home and my office...For my office the SMTP has to be what thing...however when at my home it has to be my Home ISP serer right?
So is there a way to make it try one and if that dont work then send it through the other?
So it would try to do it from the work serve...then if failed automatically try it from the home server...
Dealing w/ a IMAP server at work....dont know if that matters...think it has more to do w/ the In than the out though!
TIA
My home and my office...For my office the SMTP has to be what thing...however when at my home it has to be my Home ISP serer right?
So is there a way to make it try one and if that dont work then send it through the other?
So it would try to do it from the work serve...then if failed automatically try it from the home server...
Dealing w/ a IMAP server at work....dont know if that matters...think it has more to do w/ the In than the out though!
TIA
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The simple way is setup two email accounts on one machine both pointing the same pop server but different smtp servers. Then just select which account you are using when you send the email. The annoyance in this system is that you have to always select the account because it'll bind whatever account you originally used to reply to the email. Not a big deal just a step to think about.
The simple way. Get a gmail account and use that as your smtp server all the time. gmail uses a secure smtp server so you can relay whatever you want through your account. You can pull in through pop or imap as appropriate and then always replay through gmail's smtp. You can also have your gmail pull in other pop accounts, can't remember if it'll pull imap or not.
Gonna put this in the other post though so we dont get too confused!...
TIA
You can setup multiple email accounts in outlook or whatever email program your using.
You then specify which account your using when you send the email. You can set a default email account for new messages and any message you reply to will by default go to the email account it was sent to, but you can again hit the account tab to change it.
For example you set up a home and work email account. You could have both email accounts going to the same pop/imap server but have two different smtp servers setup.
When you hit send receive both accounts will poll their pop servers. Same with sending. So you just have to make sure that you don't send emails out on an account that is currently unaccessible or you'll get errors.
Now If both email accounts are hitting the same incoming email server. Then you are better to go into your send/receive settings and disabling one of the accounts, since polling the same incoming server twice is pointless. Then you just have to worry about your sending.
Keep in mind most places you connect to you have to be using the smtp for the ISP at the time, unless the SMTP you are connecting to is using tls/ssl and excepting outside connectiong through password authentication. For Gmail for example allows you to do this, I know our Bell (cananda) now allows you to do this. Basically any smtp server that requires you to submit a username/password before sending should be able to be used regardless of which ISP you are connected to.