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vm34

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Registered: 2005-11-22

Posts: 2

Change Mail Settings

Change the mail settings like POP3, IMAP, SMTP servers in MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, The Bat!.

NetSetMan Support

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: Change Mail Settings

What for?
Every normal email client has a build-in feature to have different email accounts which allows you to get and send emails for all available accounts.

vm34

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Registered: 2005-11-22

Posts: 2

Re: Change Mail Settings

What for?
Every normal email client has a build-in feature to have different email accounts which allows you to get and send emails for all available accounts.

Well, you are right. But i have complains from users about a error window "Mail client can't get or send mail", when one of mail server is in another IP space.

For some reason this future will help admins to fight with stupid users. ;-)  Like this instruction:
Dear user, if you at home click "Home", if you at office1 click "Office1", if you at office2 click "Office2", etc...

Chris

Guest

Re: Change Mail Settings

Wouldn't it be useful?  I'd certainly use it!

I use thunderbird and am always switching my default smtp server depending on where I am located (may be a dumb user, not sure!) - the other thing I have to switch is at work access to an external imap mail server is blocked and instead routed through a different IP/port number on the work firewall, so to access this mail account I have to change the IP of the mail server each time  (but don't want the mail account listed twice in thunderbird).

Jörg

Guest

Re: Change Mail Settings

To change SMTP servers easily, just add dummy accounts (correct SMTP server, incoming servers don't matter) for each SMTP server you need. Before sending a mail select the appropriate account in the from-field.
You will have to select in each mail you send, but it is quite fast nonetheless.

Jörg

Jörg

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Re: Change Mail Settings

Just a thought: regarding changing SMTP servers automatically, could this not be done by using a script that changes the hosts file?

One could have a hosts file for each profile (hosts.profile1, hosts.profile2, ...), the script could simply perform:
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copy hosts.profile1 %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
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(for profile1, similar for the others)

Each hosts.profile file holds a line (apart from the default ones):
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a.b.c.d  dummy_SMTP
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where the name dummy_SMTP is the same for all the profiles, but the IP address (a.b.c.d) is different for each profile.

In the mail client, one then just needs to change the SMTP server to 'dummy_SMTP' (for safeguarding this, I would still suggest to use dummy accounts with the true SMTP servers, as mentioned in my previous post, allowing you to still choose when sending).

Upon activation of a profile, the script is changes the host file, and thus the defintion of the SMTP server.

It still wouldn't be able to have different logins (if you have an SMTP server requires you to log on), nor to have different security settings, but it might work for most people.
(haven't tested it yet, but I think it ought to work)

Jörg

zac

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 1

Re: Change Mail Settings

Hi All,

I'm using NetSetMan and quite satisfied with it.
Also using Thunderbird, with multiple smtp accounts, however I'm not very happy with the fact that I have to switch the outgoing server when I switch my netwrok settings with NetSetMan. That's one more switch than necessary.

Indeed, a little script may do the job, but I'm not good in scripts, nor I want to take the time to trial-and-error it, since one click to switch Thunderbird's settings is still quicker.

However it WOULD be faster and more efficient if NetSetMan could handle this problem, either with inbuilt script, or I-don't-know-how.

bye
Istvan Zachar