On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Frank Cox theatre@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Android could reply back through the account directly. Your complications are coming from combining things in the first place.
I can't reply directly from my phone because of restrictions on the mailservers. Gmail and friends don't care, but both of the ISP's that I have email accounts on allow outbound SMTP only from "their" IP addresses.
It's not that gmail doesn't care, it is that they handle authenticated access for sending as part of the account setup. And many/most mail services do too. It's probably not a good idea to rely on any service where you don't have mobile access anyway. Or to give out ISP email addresses that will go away when you change services.
especially if they all offer IMAP so your computer and phone see the same things.
Some don't have IMAP at all, and some don't allow IMAP on "foreign" IP addresses. Therefore, I would be stuck with webmail on those particular webservers, which seems really inconvenient and won't allow me to aggregate all of my email into a single (sorted) pile.
But in the bigger picture, how much do you need those accounts/addresses? And if you continue to use them at all, can you set them to forward to something with more full-featured service?