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

[Peter von Kaehne <refdoc gmx net>]

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 08:03 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 08:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 06:38 +0000, evolution-list-owner gnome org wrote:
> > > [snip] rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> > > following reason for rejecting your request:
> > > "Already resent from other account, hence rejecting." [snip]
> > I changed the used account for the list from ralf DOT mardorf AT
> > rocketmail.com to Evolution's default account ralf DOT mardorf AT
> > alice-dsl.net too avoid this issue in the future.
> > 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.
>
> But as soon as that is implemented someone will say "but i want to reply
> to this list with account A and that list with account B and this other
> list with...."
>
> It just seems like a rabbit hole to me.

I think it seems a very useful direction. I have work lists, private
lists and some open source involvement related lists - and I would
indeed prefer to have them cleanly separated. Lists, I tend not to get
confused wth, but people, I do. And there the automatic separation would
be even more useful. It is also a useful anti-stalker device - you could
ensure that certain unpleasant people get only ever a response from a
certain account, e.g. work account. 

I am quite sure I have seen at least one client where this is possible.
Basically part of the contacts' list data was an entry per contact with
preferred identity to be used. Maybe it was Thunderbird +/- some addon.
Not sure.

> > I wonder if I should file a feature request to upstream or if my wish is
> > freaky?

No, it is a useful and nice feature. Whether the developers think so
too, is obviously open for question, but as a user I would be delighted
to have it. Thanks for suggesting this.

Peter