Re: Configuring multiple SMTP hosts

Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:03:32 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Mike!

On 03/12/2022 05:15:43 PM Sat, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems to me like I used to be able to have multiple SMTP hosts and Balsa would choose the one that corresponded to the domain of the identity I'm sending the message with.
> 
> Now, for a while I was just using gmail as the SMTP host. Now I want to go back to sending through multiple SMTP hosts and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. No matter how I configure things, or what identity I use, it always sends it through gmail.
> 
> So maybe I'm remembering wrong and it doesn't pick the outgoing mail server based on the domain the the identity? Or maybe I'm doing something else wrong?
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
> -Mike

You can set the SMTP server to be used for a given identity at the foot of the second page of the Edit:Preferences:Identities dialog. I don't recall that Balsa ever used the domain to pick a server, but it seems like a good idea!

HTH!

Peter