steve sutton

I really don't understand the benefit of this approach, versus simply
allowing us to set different login/password settings for POP3 retrieval
and SMTP sending? Seems overly convoluted to solve the problem.

Assuming they are solving the problem I *think* they're trying to solve,
and I'm not sure that is the case.

Cheers,
Steve

mitch wagner

Hmmm.... I'm not sure what problem you think they're trying to solve,
but the problem I think they're trying to solve is my problem, which
is this:

I have six e-mail accounts that I check using Eudora. I send e-mail
from many of them, too. When I'm working from my home office, which is
most of the time, I need to use my cable modem company's SMTP server
to send mail from all my accounts.

Unfortunately, my cable modem company doesn't offer dial-up service,
so I have a separate dial-up account. I need to use a different SMTP
server when I take my notebook computer out and use it from the dial-
up account.

And sometimes I go to a coffeehouse and connect over their Wi-Fi
connection, or I visit my company's home office and connect over their
LAN. Those situations require yet ANOTHER SMTP server.

Until now, I've had two choice: change the SMTP setting in every one
of six places every time I relocated. Or use third-party SMTP
software, which worked imperfectly. But now, with the "Relay
Personality," I should be able to just point my five other accounts at
my Dominant account and, when I need to change SMTP server, change it
just in that one place.


--
Mitch Wagner * weblog http://blog.mitchwagner.com/ * Asked by agents
if he had anything else to tell them, Cusack responded: "Yes, I've got
monkeys in my pants." -- CNN.com, Dec. 19, 2002

jan ehrhardt

Mitch Wagner in comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows (13 Jul 2003 16:55:04 GMT):

[snip other connections, other smtp-servers]

I once had the same problem and solved it quite simple: in all my eudora
accounts I used the (fake) smtp-server smtp.localhost. In my
c:\windows\hosts file I defined smtp.localhost as nnn.***.yyy.zzz (the
IP-number of my cable provider).

For all my other connection I had different hosts-files at hand. And on
my desktop I had shortcuts for 'copy hosts.pr1 hosts', 'copy hosts.pr2
hosts', 'copy hosts.pr3 hosts' et cetera. Simply by clicking on the
shortcuts, I could change my smtp-server. No need to adjust the
eudora.ini's.

Jan

gary montgomery

Which is just fine IF you have a truly static IP address to use. I use
Earthlink through Time-Warner Cablevision and you gotta pay extra for a
truly static IP address ("business class")...but: the one I get from them
does persist on average of three weeks or more (unless I tell the NIC to get
a new one or they get tired of me glomming onto one for an extended period
of time without paying for the privilege); I only run an IP dependent server
on my personal computer on rare ocassions and temporarily anyway; and if I
needed an exact address longer for any reason I could pay either a host or
the provider for it =0)

jan ehrhardt

Gary Montgomery in comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows (Sun, 13 Jul 2003
13:54:50 -0500):

I was not clear: with nnn.***.yyy.zzz I meant the IP-number of the
smtp-server of my cable provider. Whether or not your own IP-address is
not relevant. The clue as that you are configuring smtp.localhost in
your eudora.ini and use the hosts file to define what smtp.localhost
really points to.

Jan

steve dorner

Which is fine until your provider wants you to do SMTP auth. Then
you're sunk without something like the relay personality feature.

plugin hunter

That was also my problem, which I solved with a personality to pick up mail
and a personality to send mail for each account. This was very ***bersome,
so I am very pleased with the new feature.

mitch wagner

So why is the Relay Personality feature a problem for you then?

--
Mitch Wagner * weblog http://blog.mitchwagner.com/ * Asked by agents
if he had anything else to tell them, Cusack responded: "Yes, I've got
monkeys in my pants." -- CNN.com, Dec. 19, 2002