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Allow configuring multiple mail accounts for smtpmail.el

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 52205 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52205: Allow configuring multiple mail accounts for smtpmail.el
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:08:27 +0100

Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net> writes:

> the below patch should allow for multiple mail accounts being configured
> for smtpmail.el, without having to use tricks like
> X-Message-SMTP-Method, that only work when the MUA also inserts them at
> the right time.

The problem is that there's no limit to how people want to configure
their outgoing mail.

> +         (server (alist-get envelope-from smtpmail-smtp-server-alist
> +                            (list smtpmail-smtp-server)
> +                            nil #'string=))

And using just the envelope-from might be correct for your use case, but
it's not, in general, very useful.

If we want to add something like this to smtpmail, it has to allow a
full range of customisations for how to determine the server...  and
that's best done in the MUA, in my opinion.  Which is why it's
implemented via a header so the MUA can do this.

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