246483 - badly need to implement separate smtp server for each e-mail account

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[piotr wierzchowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Due to increasing number for email worms some big mail sites decide to implement
an authentication mechanism with SMTP. It is working in Mozilla. But a big and
annoying problem occures while you have two or more accounts on such a server. 

1. It is not truth that you need only one smtp server in such ocasion (that's
what's written at the smtp server config. pages in account options of mailer).
You need minimum two - with separate settings for identification for this same
server - but still you have to supply two working configurations.

2. You have to have ability to somehow tie up each user account with a SMTP
server, because in other way - you have to fill in the auth. info each time you
send mail from each of these two (or possibly more) accounts - on the same server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create two accounts on a mail server that has an smtp auth. mechanism
2. configure pop3 info for both of these accouns (in short - create two mail
accounts in mozilla)
3. fill in smtp info for one of these accounts
4. try to send mail from other account.

Actual Results:  
you got an error saying that you try to send mail with <from: [e-mail]>
account while smtp authenticaion was done for [e-mail].


Expected Results:  
for me - it can be resolved only by making separate smtp server for each email
account.

MS Outlook express or Outlook does this much better. You are free of this
problem in their implementation.

You can check this only with mail servers that forces you to authenticate on
mail send (like poczta.onet.pl).

I suppose that more and more public mail servers will implement this mechanism
to stop relaying fake mails comming from various viruses and trojans.

Comment 1

[Sven Grull]

You can enter additional smtp server. Just click on "Advanced" under "Outgoing
Server (SMTP)" and add a smtp server. Then go back to the "Server Settings" for
your account. Select "Advanced" and assign the smtp server to the actual account.
If you always have to use the same smtp server with different users, it is
recommended to differentiate the second smtp server from the first, assign it to
the account and afterwards correct it under "Outgoing Server".
There are different bugs to enhance the UI for smtp server, e.g. bug 202468.

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Marking WORKSFORME. The user interface for this is currently not very
discoverable, but hopefully bug 202468 will land soon to make the situation better.