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Re: [trinity-users] kmail Mail transport

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:57:18 -0400
On Saturday 26 September 2015 04:35:24 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Am Saturday, 26. September 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I have trolled thru the configs but haven't managed to find a way to
> > link the Identity used to send a mail, to the Mail transport used to
> > send the msg.  Since I have an account at the tv station at least as
> > long as I live, I have used that old & overloaded qmail server since
> > I helped install it 16 years ago.
> >
> > But shentel has now set up a new server of their own after about 2
> > years of excedrin headaches caused by farming it out to gmail, and
> > of course I have an account there because its my ISP and phone
> > company too.
> >
> > In the folder properties, one can set the sender Identity, which
> > works well, but to use the 20x faster shentel server when I am using
> > a shenetl ID, I have to manually select it from the pulldown on the
> > right.
> >
> > Can this not be linked to be automaticly selected according to the
> > folder I launched a reply in?
> >
> > If not, its a future feature request.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> I do it this way:
> - create a new account for "Sending", (e.g. "outgoing")
> - create a new identidy, let'c call it "test"
> - edit properties of this identidy ("test"):
> 	"Modify ...",
> 	3rd tab "Advanced",
> 	check the checkmark in the last line "Special transport",
> 	select the former created account for sending (e.g. "outgoing")
> Now your account uses the "outgoing" for sending.
>
> An other thing I usally do is assigning a mail account to the folder,
> so it ist' automaticly chosen when I hit new mail or reply: - right
> clock on the doomed folder
> - "Poperties"
> - "Sender Identidy" - select your identidy (e.g. "test")
>
> Nik

Looks like it works, thanks again Nik.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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