Setting Mail.app SMTP servers by location

:: Saturday, November 24th, 2007 @ 4:14:18 pm

:: Tags: Computers

Today, I manually changed SMTP servers for my accounts in Mac OS X’s Mail.app for the last time. Using this cool script as a model, I now have a script that sets specific SMTP servers for specific accounts based on the name of the Airport network I’m currently connected to.

Now, all I have to do when I change locations is run the script, which I can do in 1 second by using Quicksilver. I love making my computer use more efficient!

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:: 3 comments (rss)

1. posted by Giles Shaxted on Sun, November 25, 2007 @ 8:22 am

   Do you change smtp servers because you want to, because different ones work better in different places or because you don’t have an international one ?

   Our local ISP has smtp all over with username and password .. and i also use a yahoo smtp (paid for pro account) … do you find that some places you go your smtp servers are just blocked ?

2. posted by Alex on Sun, November 25, 2007 @ 10:49 am

   I “solved” this a few years ago by signing up for FastMail’s $15/lifetime SMTP access. They offer SSL and a proxy server that allows you to run SMTP over any port. It’s been a “set it and forget it” solution for the last 5 years for me. Recommended.

   Shameless inclusion of referral link.

   http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/?STKI=1035041

   ;)

3. posted by echeng on Sun, November 25, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

   Alex - I use Fastmail as well (port 80 SSL), but Stanford manages to block it. I’m at Stanford a few days a week (when I’m in town), and I’m sick of changing the SMTP server.

   Since you included your referral link, I’m gonna as well. ) http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/?STKI=913692

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