Re: Problems with using different SMTP-Servers

Hello,

I updated to head of trunk in CVS on the evening of 25. for the 
following tests.

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Martin Jost <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> MJ> - I set up a further identity. (I use several with different quotes
> MJ>   and reply-to but so far all with the same server)
> MJ> - Problem: 1 The high of the settings-dialog can only be made a little
> MJ>   bit smaller than the "default". So the buttons on the bottom get
> MJ>   covered by the KDE-bar.
> 
>  Sorry, do you mean it can't be made smaller than your screen height or
> something else?

Yes, only a little bit smaller than the screen size.
I've attached a screenshot with the preference dialog reduced to the 
smallest possible height and width.
Besides I tried:
- Renaming my ~/.M-directory so Mahogany starts "new"
- using another account
but the behaviour remains the same.

> MJ> - On the "Network" page I enter the address of the SMTP-server.
> MJ>   The server uses TLS with password and name. So I enter the name
> MJ>   (leaving the password empty to get asked)
> MJ>   The sever is one of those broken exim-servers, so I enter 'PLAIN' in
> MJ>   the list of protocols not to use.
> MJ> - Problem 2: After "ok"-ing the box and reentering, the string of
> MJ>   protocols not to use is empty again.
> MJ>   (This effect doesn't happen for the "global" setting)
> 
>  I've just fixed this bug a few days ago, please try the very latest cvs,
> it should work there.

Yes, this now works as expected. (Not that it helps me that much, given 
the second problem)

> MJ> - Problem 4: I go online and try to send my mail out. But mahogany goes
> MJ>   the the SMTP-server set in the global setting and there - sure
> MJ>   enough - fails with the mail with the "wrong" sender-domain.

>  This could be due to the same bug but I'm (much) less sure about it. I
> think it could indeed simply lose the identity information... In fact, I'm
> almost sure it does as when it sends message from the outbox there is no
> way it could know what was the identity you used for composing it :-(

I assumed something like this. (Because of that I mentioned outbox)

> MJ> Is there another, better approach to using more than one SMTP-server ?
> 
>  You can also assign different SMTP servers to different folders (this is
> what I do) but this would suffer from the same bug: it works when sending
> directly but not when using outbox. The only solution I see is to save the
> identity used for composing the message in the message itself and remove it
> from there when sending it from Outbox. This is a bit of a hack but I don't
> see anything else.
> 
>  Please enter a bug for this so that I don't forget to fix it.

I'll do that. One question on this:
Is it possible to "tell" Bugzilla, that my mail address has changed ?
I would like to keep the history, but switch to my new address.
I couldn't find a way to change my mail-address.

Martin