Re: [Evolution] Multiple Mail Accounts Question.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

This is simply starting to get gross. How does Mozilla/Outlook handle this? or do they not handle it either?

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:26 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> It would be nice if there were a way to make the account selection work
> with mailing lists too.
>
> I've lately run into some problems because my isp uses one or more
> realtime black hole lists to block incoming e-mails. It's frustrating
> because my locally installed SpamAssassin seems to find a lot of spam
> which gets by them anyway, and it's caused me problems with yahoo
> groups, and with some other support mailing lists. So I've set up
> another mail identity which goes directly to my own mail server in my
> domain. However, if the mailing list doesn't include my address in
> broadcast mail, then I still default to my isp email address when I
> reply to the list, and if the list is set to subscriber only, then the
> mail bounces unless I remember to select the other account.
>
> Is it or would it be possible to have Evolution select a from address
> based on another address appearing in header fields such as
> Mailing-List, From: CC: etc. 
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 10:26, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > it picks the From address based on the recipient list of the message. So
> > if one of your email addresses is in the To/Cc headers, it will choose
> > that account.
> > 
> > It also checks the Evolution-Source header, if that is set it chooses
> > that account.
> > 
> > failing the above 2 (can't remember which order they were applied in),
> > it chooses the default account.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 10:22, Derek Wueppelmann wrote:
> > > How does Evolution choose which address to send mail from when you have
> > > more than one account? I have been getting icreasingly frustrated with
> > > Evolution 1.2.4 because I have two accounts, one which is disabled
> > > because I only use it to send mail from and the other which holds all of
> > > my mail. Whenver I compose a message it seems to pick a from address
> > > randomly from the listing. There is no consistency that I can find? Is
> > > there a way I can force it to always pick one address instead of
> > > randomly selecting one.
> > 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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