I have a question about sending a mail with mozilla thunderbird. I have several email-addresses and i want thunderbird to choose a certain account when i send an email to a certain recipient.
For example I have two accounts: mail#myaddress.com and mail#anotheraddress.com
If I send an email thunderbird uses per default mail#myaddress.com. So far so good. Sometimes I have to send an email to companies, where I have to use mail#anotheraddress.com as sender address. If I forget to switch the account theses companies get mails from the wrong mail address. Is there a way to connect a recipient emailaddress to an certain account?
You can compose email using command line:
"preselectid" : an identifier for the "From" identity to choose from the menu*
note that you cannot directly specify an e-mail address but need to find the identity key
for example, "preselectid=id2" would select the identity #2
Reference:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_%28Thunderbird%29
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Suppose I own an email 'demo#gmail.com'. Now, I create a new Microsoft account using my existing email. Thus I get another email 'demo#gmail.com', but this one is served by Microsoft.
So the situation is: one email and two providers.
If I send a hello email to 'demo#gmail.com' using my personal SMTP server, to which of the above will it send: will it send to the one hosted by Microsoft or the one hosted by Google?
How does it solve such an ambiguity? What are the factors that influence this?
This is a very common problem because many providers are giving us an option to create a new account using our existing email.
My observations:
I saw the emails inside the inboxes of both the services. I found that they had completely different emails.
There was no email which was common to both the inboxes. So there must be some mechanism to deal with it.
Let us look at the problem the other way round: If I had an email 'demo#outlook.com' initially and I created a new Google Account with this email address, then:
An email sent to this email address from another gmail account goes to the Google's server. An email sent to this email address from an Outlook also goes to the Google's servers.
There are two different ways of looking up an email. The 'normal' way:
You send an email to an server, in this example gmail.com.
Your mail delivery agent looks for mx record of gmail.comand send it to the ip-address of gmail.com.
If an email is delivered locally by the domain outlook.com it perhaps doesn't lookup the mx record, but lookups in a local database if the email-address exist there, and sends it to the ip-address of the outlook.com.
I think in the inbox of outlook.com are only microsoft emails.
More details can be found at https://www.socketlabs.com/blog/smtp-email-delivery/
I would like to know if Office365 and Google Suit provides "Alias" for email id and domain. Actually, Alias is generally used to create 2 email IDs like abc#xyz.com and abc#pqr.com and both the emails coming to the same email id.
If anyone is aware about the same then please let me know.
With Exchange Online you can register multiple domains against a single account and use them for incoming emails, but outgoing email is currently always sent from the primary address defined for a user
so (eg) if you have abc#xyz.com as the primary and abc#pqr.com as an alias, then incoming email to both addresses will be delivered to the abc#xyz.com mailbox and replies always sent from that address
Suggest adding a vote to this item to see if MS can/will address it...
I am specifying "FROM" address usinf setFrom() method, But i still receive mails having "FROM" address of SMTP authentication mail id. and want to set the "FROM" address dynamically. which keeps changing. What is the RFC282 standard to achieve this.
The solution from google is this
Gmail lets you send messages with another of your email addresses listed as the sender instead of your Gmail address. This feature helps you manage multiple accounts from the Gmail interface; it works only if you already own the email account linked to the alternate address
Select the Accounts and Import tab (or Accounts tab, if you're using Google Apps).
Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
In the 'Email address' field, enter your name and alternate email address.
Choose one of two options:
Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up)
Use your other email provider's SMTP servers (we recommend this option for professional mail accounts or domains). Note for Google Apps users: Depending on your domain2 type, this feature may be disabled by default. Talk to your administrator if you have any questions.
If you choose to use Gmail's servers:
Click Next Step >> and then click Send Verification. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you own it.
Open your other account and either click the link in the message Gmail sent or enter the confirmation code in the Accounts section of your Gmail settings.
For more info, follow the below link
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22370.
The overhead involved is that any new from address needs a alias to be set in Gamil authentication mail account. Its not suits for enterprise salable app.
Other solution is You can install a mail server (hmailServer). This server allows you to set the custom from address
If any body knows other solutions, please suggest me.
It's up to your mail server. Often mail servers will prevent you from using any From address other than your actual login name. This helps prevent spam. Depending on your mail server, there may be ways to convince it that you should be allowed to use other From addresses.
These are two different things that you are talking about:
The id that you are mentioning is part of smtp handshaking protocol which usually is mapped to "Return-path" field in mime-header.
Whereas the id that comes in "FROM" field which actually is displayed in mail-list is been appended by the mail server when u compose the mail.
So if you can modify the mime header then make sure that "FROM:" field contains the id that yuou want to set not the smtp authentication id.
btw its rfc822
Have worked for rediffmail technical team in order to develop and enhance smtp, pop and imap protocols
Its depends on your mail server and configuration setting
My host has Sendmail() disabled. I'm basically looking for a way to bypass this. I want visitors to be able to send me (gmail account) an email where they first fill in their e-mail address, so they become the sender. It's for support questions and remarks.
If there is no way to bypass this, is there and alternative, perhaps using mailchimp..?
You can always use an alternative public send mail servers available. You can use one of them. Here is one Public Send Mail server list
use phpmailer library. you can send email via connecting smtp (works with gmail too.) 1st configure one of your accounts with phpmailer. when the user fills in their email set the sender as user's email.
even though you are actually sending the email through your account to receiver of the email will show as sent by user's email address.
http://phpmailer.worxware.com/
I am using php mail function to allow user to send me a mail from
website.
I am also allowing them to "cc" the email to themselves.
The whole purpose of making a "send us message" feature was not give our email to the users. But when the user selects the "cc" option, in the header of the mail that is sent to the user, the "to" field contains our primary email address.
How can I remove this, so that the users do not see our primary email address in the to field.
You could set the mailTo to an arbitrary mailbox at your domain "noreply#yourdomain.com" and add your company address in BCC?
But whatever reason you have for not exposing your email, imho it's quite unpolite :)
The e-mail message sent to you must have a To: field to be delivered correctly. You could emulate the CC feature by sending to separate e-mail messages to the office and to the client.