Re: [Sheflug] thunderbird auto default smtp server change on dialup vs office lan

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:10 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Slightly OT as its a windows based laptop but the s/w I'm asking about is
> O/S and available for Linux so I thought I'd ask anyway:

Very OT :P Smack bottie.

> office (that would have been nice!)  Anyone know how I automatically and non
> interactively set the SMTP server in Thunderbird so that the user doesn't
> have to do anything to get it to switch to the correct server?

Maybe think laterally - have split DNS, and resolve to different results
inside and outside the LAN? E.g., 

smtp.chrisjcorp.com 	IN CNAME  	smtp.myisp.net

... for outside the LAN, and ...

smtp.chrisjcorp.com 	IN CNAME	smtp.cjcorp.internal

... inside the lan.

Might not work if you need SMTP Auth or similar, but it's an idea (and
one I've used successfully myself).

The alternative - which is messier - is to setup two profiles, either
two windows users or two thunderbird profiles. This is a pain, though.

Cheers,

Alex.

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