[Users] identities and sending email

[Andrej Kacian]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:06:20 -0600
"[dbes1] claws mail ml account"
<00136.01-clawsml1-ml01.dbes1 at digitalrelief.com> wrote:

> The identity I created references an alias on a different server.  I 
> used SMTP credentials from a different full-fledged email account to 
> populate the SMTP details of the 'SMTP only' account.  Should this
> work? Or do 'SMTP only' accounts expect SMTP authentication to occur
> using the listed "Mail address".

Hi, the SMTP authentication will always use username + password you
enter in the account preferences (those on Send page, or those on Basic
page, if the former are left empty).

Mailing address does not come into play at all during SMTP
authentication, as far as I can remember.

Regards,
-- 
Andrej