I want e-mail profiles

by Jason Preston on November 30, 2006

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One of the annoying things about having SBC DSL at my apartment is that they require that all outgoing e-mail go through their SMTP server, despite the fact that I have secure servers to send through that I use everywhere else.

What’s really annoying about this is that when I’m home, I have to change all my outgoing mail servers to one thing, and when I’m anywhere else, on any other internet connection, I have to change them all back just to send an e-mail.

Since there’s no way SBC is going to stop being idiotic about it, I think that it would be great if a mail program (does Mozilla do this?) would let me select a locational “profile” for my e-mail settings.

So while I’m at home at can simply select “home,” and all my e-mail settings would be set up for my home internet connection, and while I’m at school I can select “school,” and, without the massive hassle of changing settings manually, I’m good to go on a regular connection.

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