Thunderbird Using Two Different Outgoing Servers

[mhumm2]

MY EMAIL WORKS, but I have no idea how it works and I would like a little education on this.

I have a unique configuration to my system. I switch between 3 physical hard drives which have different OSs on each: Kubuntu 13.10, 14.04, and a Windoze OS wannabe that I don't use much.

I have a single data drive which contains all of my TB email files and firefox config files. When I install a new version of Linux on either drive, I just modify the application's profile ini file, on that disk, to point it to the data drive ini file. It really works well as there's no importing or copying of emails or bookmarks etc. into the new apps.

So I have two email accounts; personal and business. They use 2 different Outgoing servers, but TB doesn't allow me to assign a specific outgoing server to each account like it does incoming servers. I can outgoing servers to a list and I can identify one of them as a default. How would I explicitly assign a different outgoing server to each account? Again, it works, but I don't know how and I'd really like to.

[Snowhog]

You don't need more than one outbound email server, and I think that is why, while you can setup additional outgoing email servers, only one can be active (set as default). Establishing multiple incoming email servers is typical, especially when one has multiple email accounts (gmail, yahoo, etc).

[quarkslot]

I'm managing 4 e-mail accounts with Thunderbird, during account set-up Thunderbird automatically configures the outgoing server.

When I click on "Write" to compose an e-mail Thunderbird assigns the correct outgoing e-mail address based on the currently selected Inbox, which seems fairly intuitive to me, does your Thunderbird not behave in this way?

[arist]

I'm using 24.4.0. When I go to Edit/Account Settings, my three accounts are displayed, and I can choose the outgoing server for each. At the bottom of that page I can add any number of outgoing servers.