[dba-Tech] Can I Email send but not receive

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Jun 3 17:39:08 CDT 2008


I don't know about Thunderbird specifically, but any decent email program will do this.

Just configure the email client of your choice with the same SMTP (sending) configuration 
on each machine,  but leave the POP3 (receiving configuration blank)

-- 
Stuart

On 3 Jun 2008 at 8:01, jwcolby wrote:

> Here is the deal.  I have several different servers.  I do 
> work on those servers and results end up in local 
> directories on those servers.  I need to be able to SEND 
> email from those servers, attaching the files on their local 
> directories, BUT I do not want those email clients on those 
> servers to pick up the email.
> 
> I want every email client to SEND on my jwcolby@ address but 
> I only want to pick up the mail on my laptop.  this would 
> allow me to send from any machine but all responses to the 
> emails would come back to my laptop email client.
> 
> So is it possible to set up an email client (Thunderbird) to 
> have an outgoing server, but no incoming server?  Send, but 
> never receive?
> 
> I do NOT want to have an email address for each server 
> (which was my first thought) because I don't want to have to 
> go to each machine to check for responses.
> 
> -- 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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