not only one smtp server - please

Hello, thanks for the tip using another administrator-account on the mac - but you i tried to avoid that as long as possible... with all the settings and passwords (i use long and complex ones ;) there is too much room for errors... anyway:

After reaching for Apple-Support i learned it should work - and that sometimes there might be some kind of a hiccup with the accounts in mail... so i should try deleting and afterwards adding the accounts again with all the settings - and i should start by deleting all of them (except the one from apple) -

so i deleted the three accounts... setting up the first one worked of course (as usual) - but i had the same problem with the second one again... so i tried to use the second one as a smtp-account too but not with the settings from my provider but but with "set connection-settings automatically" (or so, i do use the US language-setting) - and that worked... - i had two mail-accounts working with smtp.

Setting up the third smtp-account was more work - i did 3 times exactly the same (deleting and adding the account) - and with the smtp-account and the automatic setting the third account works too now... but i did exactly that for 3 times... but now it works!

Somebody at Apple should have a look into these settings - there is something wrong...

Just to clear it up a bit:

I have a iCloud-Account: no problem.

I also have 3 other accounts at a provider called strato.de where i have 3 websites, 3 blogs and 3 email-accounts for 3 companies. I want to keep them separate - also with my emails...

The hostname is of course 3 times the same (smtp.strato.de), account and passwords are different. Only one of these 3 can be set to smtp.strato.de with port 465 and TLS/SSL, authenticate: password.

Setting one of them individually works fine (no matter witch one) - setting a second (no matter wich one) i get this message from mail: A SMTP account already exists. Only a singe SMTP account is allowed to be saved.

So this seems to be planned behavior from apple - right?

So it looks to me as if only one smtp account is allowed (by apple - not anybody else) - and this is a problem, because starting on may 5. the host (Strato) will not allow unsafe accounts anymore...

Greetings from the alps

So - since yesterday i can only send messages from one account because apple / mail does not allow me to save several smtp-accounts.

Can anybody give me a reason for that behaviour or why apple does not allow this? I don't get it. Because i cannot find anything strange or abnormal in what i am asking for or what i expect.

Do i have to use some other mail-app?