Multiple POP accouts ( different domains )

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Hello

I have a very basic Lotus Notes problem… I have 2 POP accounts ( on different domains ) and I want to have the emails from them in 2 different mail databases in lotus. ( and of course, notification when I receive an email on any of the accounts ).

So far, I managed to have 2 attempts… but none of them really did what I wanted.

  1. Using a single location ( this means that I was able to specify a single mail database ).

I created 4 accounts ( 2 pops and 2 smtps ) and enabled them on this location.

The problem with this is that I have all the emails in the same database, which I don’t want, and on top of this, there is no way of specifying which account should be used when you send a reply, or a new email. All emails will be sent using a single email address, which is not ok, because one guy sends me an email to one email address and I reply using another!!!

  1. Using 2 locations ( thus having 2 different mail databases )… the same 4 accounts ( 2 on the first location, the other 2 on the second ).

This works with no bugs, if I restart lotus every time I decide to change the location.

If I change the location using File->mobile->choose current location, the replication settings are kept for the location I logged in, regardless of the new location I just changed… :frowning:

Also I tend to guess that the “location abstractization” was not designed for solving this type of problems, as it seems to me, it is an elegant tool of specifying which accounts you want to synchronize/replicate.

I hope that my lotus skills are indeed bad, because I refuse to believe that such a powerful and complex tool has a problem on such a simple configuration… altough when having all the emails in one database it is clear that the sender cannot be chosen…

Anybody has any experience with this?.. I read the forum but what came close to this, was the multiple accounts from the same domain ( and I guess the emails stored in one mail db ).

Thank you,

Thomas

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Subject: Multiple POP accouts ( different domains )

I am assuming that you have different domains, and that is why you want to be able to send from two different email addresses, but the explanation below works for if you want to use two different names in the same domain as well.

In either case, you will have two notes ids. either user1/domain1 and user2/domain1 or user1/domain1 and user1/domain2.

If you set two location documents in your local NAB to reference the two different people you can swap between the two users and email addresses by changing locations.

In each location document set the following:

basics tab : location name, email address

mail tab: mail file location and internet settings as required

advanced tab: specify the user id to switch to when changing locations.

When you change to a different location you enter the password for the new user, and start using that user’s id, along with the email address specified in the location document for that user.

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Subject: RE: Multiple POP accouts ( different domains )

Yes, that is a good idea… I will try it right now. Thank you.But I was hoping to solve this without having to switch locations or user ids… just 2 simple databases mapped to the 2 different pop accounts…

Thank you for the quick answer.

Thomas

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Subject: RE: Multiple POP accouts ( different domains )

the problem with that is that you are always using a location in notes. the location must have an email address associated with it.some of the time that email address will not be the one you want!