615749 - Need ability to specify default SMTP separately for each account

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Daniel Essin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: 3.1.6

Some of my email servers check the sender against the identity that is used to log in to SMTP and bounce the mail if the two identities do not agree.

Therefore - there needs to be a way to specify the default SMTP server separately for each email account instead of having a single, global default server

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Some of my email servers check the sender against the identity that is used to log in to SMTP and bounce the mail if the two identities do not agree.

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Actual Results:  
Some of my email servers check the sender against the identity that is used to log in to SMTP and bounce the mail if the two identities do not agree.


Expected Results:  
Each outbound message would go to a server that will accept the request

There needs to be a way to specify the default SMTP server separately for each email account instead of having a single, global default server

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

So, then just define a separate SMTP server for each account. What's so difficult about that ? You can select a new one on the Account Settings dialog box, on the 'title' page of the account (not Server Settings). But you would have to create them first on the SMTP server list at the bottom.

The default setting is only to make it easy to add a new account, as most people might use the same SMTP server for all accounts. That's why you're not prompted to define a SMTP server when you create an account, as it's presumed that you would re-use an exiting SMTP server (like the default one).

Comment 2

[Daniel Essin]

It turns out that I had those set. There may be a different issue. I need to test more.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Daniel, according to comment #2 I think this bug is Invalid because Tb already work as you want: any account can have a specific smtp server.

Close as Invalid.

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.

Ciao