[imp] use an external SMTP server

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:40 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 05:35 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > Zitat von Lorenzo Bettini <bettini at dsi.unifi.it>:
> >> is there a way to use an external SMTP server with a different
> >> username and password (that each single user can set)?
> > No, you can only use either a fixed username/password combo, or the
> > credentials of the current user.
> what do you mean by a fixed username/password combo?  Something that the 
> user can fill when logging?

No, I think it means 'fixed in the config file' as in 'used for all
users'.  It is rather odd to have an SMTP password different than one's
IMAP/POP password [I'd guess these are the same password >99.44% of the
time].

config isn't filled in by users, the user settings are "preferences".