email question

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010, wade barocsi wrote:
>Hi Folks,

>I have a question that's not really linux related.

>Between  the three companies that I work for, and my personal 2 personal
>email accounts, I have seven email addresses.

>I'm sure many of you have similar situations.  Do you have any tips on
>keeping it all straight?

>Do you work out of a master account to which everything is forwarded, or
>have other solutions?

If you use Thunderbird or similar mail clients, you can set up
individual accounts pointing to each of your servers, each of
which may contain the proper sender/reply-to address to keep
things straight.

We strongly recommend using IMAP leaving the mail on the server
rather than downloading to the work station as it keeps the mail
in a central location, and makes it easy to change mail clients
if necessary.

Outgoing mail could be an issue if you have a broadband provider
that restricts outgoing SMTP traffic to their server, and either
rejects e-mail with sender addresses that aren't on their system
(e.g. user at theirnetwork.com).  The outgoing port 25 problem can
be solved by finding a friendly place that will accept your mail
on a different port, say 465 or SMTP AUTH on 587 which are not
generally blocked.  This is how we set up our clients who have
residential Comcast and similar providers.

It appears that Thunderbird only has a single outgoing server
whereas other GUI clients such as Apple's Mail.app allows one
to set outgoing servers per account.  I haven't used Evolution or
Sylpheed recently so can't say what they allow.

Bill
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