Re: Re8: multiple email address with same user?

Glenn,

It has nothing to do with 10.2.4 specifically; just 10.2.x handles multiple boxes with multiple sending accounts very well.

If somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxx sends a email to an "additional address" that does not have a mail_box: joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx, it is received in a real box of joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx, as:

From: somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Feb 20, 2003  10:01:14 AM US/Central
To: joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: test1

A reply back to somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxx, from this box will be send by joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx and somebody will receive it as:

From: joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Feb 20, 2003  10:09:04 AM US/Central
To: somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: test1

Thus, handled properly.

What you may be missing is that you need to setup an account in the OSX client for the "additional address", joebob@xxxxxxxxxxx, set to not check mail -- this will default to the proper sender on replies from mail send to joebob@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Elton

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:43 PM, Glenn A. Bookout wrote:

Elton:

On 02/19/2003 16:07 USA PT (-0800), ehd@xxxxxxxxxxx ( Elton ), wrote...

I'm not sure what you are saying, but in my case this is not correct.
I get all mail to my user name for any of my 7 domains and can reply
anyway I wish.

   Hmmm, this is a very powerful and new feature, but it must be in OSX
10.2.4 only.

I only have (1) primary mail_account defined for my user_name -- The
other (6) addresses are set-up as "additional E-mail Addresses" as
described (they are not are not real boxes) -- all mail flows to my
user's mailbox.

Replies are handled from OSX 10.2.4 client; the mail shows up in my
primary box, when I reply it is sent from the proper user@domainX; no
hint to the recipient otherwise.

...nice feature!

You need to ensure that you set the mail account as follows:

From Address Rewrite Style:
none -- (leave as written by user agent)

   It didn't work in my test using P.O and OSX 10.2.3 and the associated
Mail client ( 1.2.3 v551 ), and I have no reason to believe it changed
that drastically in 10.2.4.

   I had an account setup as ( please correct me if I've missed one of
your settings or steps ):

        Primary E-Mail Address:
             test@xxxxxxxxxx

        Additional E-mail Addresses:
             test2@xxxxxxxxxxx

        From Address Rewrite Style:
             none -- (leave as written by user agent)

   I then sent a msg. to "test2@xxxxxxxxxxx", and received it
successfully in Mail on OSX 10.2.3. in the original "test@xxxxxxxxxx"
account.  So far, so good.

   I then tried to reply to myself as sender (
"gblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ), but was given no choice to send the msg.
via "test2@xxxxxxxxxxx" as I had not created any accounts of that address
in Mail ( remember, all msgs. are coming in through the "test@xxxxxxxxxx"
account - to my way of thinking, setting up another account in Mail
defeats the purpose of the alias ).

   Sending the msg. anyway resulted in the following header when I
received the reply back in my "gblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" account (
some unneeded details snipped ):

          Return-Path: <test@xxxxxxxxxx>
          Received: { snip }
          Received: { snip }
          Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:49:59 -0800
          From: "Test" <test@xxxxxxxxxx>
          Subject: Re: test

   As you can see, there is no mention of the alternate account (
"test2@xxxxxxxxxxx" ), so, at least in most mail clients and servers that
I know of ( at least prior to OSX 10.2.4 ), though the msg. can be
replied to, there is no way to reply from a msg. to an alternate address
as that alternate address.

   Unfortunately, I'm not in a position at the moment to upgrade to
10.2.4 to run another test, but if you give me an alternate address I'll
send a msg. to it and you can reply.

   Aliases are usually better for things like "jsmith@", "james@", and
"jim@" all feeding into one account.
Huh? I thought we are talking about one user with multiple domains (?)

   My above comment was ment to illustrate that though it wouldn't work
well for multiple domains ( as stated previously, and in the above test
), alternate addresses ( or aliases ) were ideal for a variety of other
uses, such as to cover addressing variations, or migrating from one
address to another.

Glenn
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