Re: [Evolution] Determining the account used for sending mail

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev InTechnology co uk>]

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:57, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> If you go back to probably even last week or the week before in the
> archives for this list, you'll find numerous messages complaining about
> 1.0.x "find my account from this message" behavior. In fact, every week
> there are lots of complaints. All of them wanted it the way it is now.

I knew I had seen some discussion on it - I couldn't find it when I
needed it of course (must have been in some other threads with
non-obvious subject lines).

> You're actually the first person that wants it the old way :-)

When it comes down to it there are 2 ways of handling multiple
identities:-
        * Each identity has a separate mailbox - which fits the 1.1.x
          method nicely
        * All identities are delivered together.

In my case I have a hybrid method - since identities are delivered into
different folders on the same IMAP server, and unlike local folder
delivery, the entire IMAP server with all its folders is a single
account.

I think as more people move to 1.1/1.2 you are going to find more people
that dislike the new behaviour.... but you can't please all the people
all the time.  

What is a problem is that for my configuration I either have to split
stuff into multiple IMAP sources - which is frankly impractical, or find
some other means of  co-ercing the identity associated with a message.

Possibilities that would work for me would be:-
        * Identity associated based on a special header in the message
          (I can mod my delivery stuff to add headers easily enough). 
          This might be a bit too specialised for general use
        * A filter being able to tie a message to an identity
        * A folder being able to be assigned to an identity

I like the filter idea best since its most flexible (oddly enough thats
how Eudora can handle identities too), although I don't know if it would
be difficult to explain to new users.  Then again this isn't really a
naive users feature.

I've actually dropped back to 1.0.x for now since that was causing me
significant pain :-}

        Nigel.

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