Re: [Evolution] Am I the only one who needs an option to allocate accounts to recipients?

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf alice-dsl net>]

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 09:37 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Evolution really, really is missing a feature for POP/SMTP usage, that
> > allows to allocate a mailing list/recipient to one of the available
> > accounts.
>
> In my experience Evolution does a fairly good job of picking the correct
> account to use.  As far as I can see it uses the same account the list
> mail was received on as the account to send from - which, in all
> honesty, is almost always the correct thing to do.  I've certainly never
> had problems.  But perhaps that's just because I use IMAP.

Sometimes it works, IIRC when it was sent to me and Cc'ed to the list.
It never works, when it was sent to the list only. It seems to be
different for IMAP.

> > I wonder if I should file a feature request to upstream or if my wish is
> > freaky?
>
> To be honest, the heuristics for choosing the sending account is
> apparently already horrendously complex and a result of "extensive"
> mailing list discussion.  So I don't know if their will be much appetite
> for introducing extra complexity, but if you don't file a feature
> request, then nothing is ever going to happen.

Ok.

Regards,
Ralf