Re: Multi-SMTP

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> No, I would prefer explicit control of what smtp server to use as I
>>> frequently respond to emails that have come into one account as if they
>>> had come into another account (e.g. I receive personal emails on my work
>>> account but would rather carry on the conversation on my personal
>>> email).
>>
>> Sure.  Hm.  Should there be an explicit Message command for setting the
>> mail sending method, perhaps?
>>
>> But I do think it would make sense to make it easy to be able to
>> configure the outgoing method based on the To address.  Does either Gnus
>> or Message already have a thing for customising the Message buffer based
>> on that?  I couldn't see anything obvious...
>
> No idea.  I manage this by posting styles based on folders and splitting
> of emails to end up in the right folders.  If I get an email in a "work"
> folder, say, that I want to respond as a "personal" email, I manually
> move the original mail to a suitable folder and then respond.  Not ideal
> but it works...

Can you explain in more detail about why you would want smtp based on to
address as additional functionality? smtp is about sending so its clear
that from address/group drives this in the *normal* situation :
especially since some smtp services wont allow a different from address
to the account authorized user (gmail for example). I wonder if the
better work model would be to split incoming based on *from* address
when they're spooled in and then simply use gnus posting styles
attributes to indicate the smtp outgoing server line in authinfo to
utilise : therefore the development effort is curtailed to simply
outgoing smtp server selection : which really should be selectable by
gnus-posting-styles which is an existing proven, documented and
customisable method of guiding gnus.