[Users] identities and sending email

[wwp]

Hello,


On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:33:13 +0100 Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:

> 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.

Well, you remember right, SMTP AUTH is based upon userID/password. Some
SMTP servers (nowadays: most of them) don't accept relaying of emails
sent using a domain which is not the smtp one. Usually, the SMTP AUTH
overrides this behaviour.


Regards,

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wwp
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