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I have recently switched to using Mail from Thunderbird. In general I'm happy with the move in a number of ways, but one feature of Mail annoys me: I use a laptop as my sole computer and when I'm at work I use the smtp server at work because it responds faster than my Comcast provider. When at home, I have to use the comcast smtp because the work server won't accept outgoing mail from outside the university domain.
I have my accounts set so that they may use multiple smtp servers (the "use only this server" box is NOT checked), yet each time I switch locations, Mail tries to use the last used server, but then won't automatically swtich to the other. I have to respond to a dialog box asking which to use.
Is there a way to set it to automatically switch smtp servers if it doesn't get a response from the first one it picks?
Thanks!

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