GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215115
Per-folder From: email address
Last modified: 2015-03-09 00:40:48 UTC
This is strictly a wishlist that has received very positive feedback on the evolution mailing list. The problem: My mailing lists email address is different from my personal email address. Whenever I am posting (and sometimes when replying) to a mailing list I have to remember to select the right "From:" address. If I forget the mail can bounce (or I've just increased the spam that goes to my personal email address). The solution: Per-folder "From:" email addresses (i.e. allow users to choose a per-folder default account). For example if I am in the folder "evolution" and either post or reply to a new message my lists@consulting.net.nz email address could be set as the default. A good place for the selection item could be a right mouse click on a particular folder called "Default Account..." This also has important applications for those taking on roles that use a different email address (e.g. responding to queries for a company). If those queries are sorted into separate folders then it will be no longer necessary to select the correct email address when replying to relevant messages. A useful extension: Per-folder default "To:" (and/or CC/BCC) addresses as well. For example, if you click on the "evolution" folder and then click "New Message" your correct "From" address would be filled out and the correct "To" mailing list address as well! This default would be ignored when replying to a message in the folder instead of posting a new message. Evolution is already a fantastic email client. Thanks everyone. Regards, Adam Warner
Even if per folder is considered too complicated, per IMAP account (and presumably per-POP or local account too) FROM: addresses would be nice. As it stands, if I have my secondary IMAP account selected, and I click "New Message" it defaults to my primary account's FROM: address. Clearly this is not what users would expect, and is something of a hassle.
don't see this happening anytime soon...
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As Gerardo requested, I'm adding the text of bug#251496 to this bug. Evolution should support a number of settings which would be folder-specific (i.e. right-click on the folder and have a menu pop-up "edit settings"). Those settings would include: - view - ability to set default header values: o From: address (or identity/account) o Reply-To:, Cc:, Bcc: o Custom headers - Drafts/Sent folder A number of these settings can already be set in the "accounts" editor (the header values and the Drafts/Sent folders). The per-folder settings should override the per-account settings. If possible the composer should have a "show custom headers" option in the "view" menu. When composing a new message the settings of the currently opened folder should be used. Rationale: I have one IMAP account with a set of folders in which I receive mail for a number of "role-accounts" (noc, news, private, business, several mailinglists). In such a (common) scenario it makes a lot of sense to be able to to set From:/Cc:/Bcc:/custom headers per folder. There are a lot of people who want this, it regulary comes up on the mailinglists: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-May/008736.html http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-May/008769.html
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i dont see the last comment happening. associating a 'default account' with the folder seems quite doable though.
updating version number
Bumping version to a stable release.
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I added the functionality for per-folder and per-recipient send account within commit b5023d3 to git master of evolution (3.11.1+). The setting can be found in Folder Properties and in Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences->Send Accounts. The recipient comparison is filter-like, aka it's enough to write only part of the address or a name and whichever matches first (in order To, CC, Bcc) is picked.
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I realized that I caused a regression in evolution with the above commit, the mail-config.ui file editing dropped ID-s for forward and reply styles in Preferences, thus it was opened empty. This is fixed at commit f30598b [1] for 3.11.5+. [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=f30598b
Nice feature! Would it be possible to make the folder matching recursive? I.e. I have a large subfolder tree called “Debian”; it would be nice if it was sufficient to set my Debian account as the sender for the Debian folder, and have it effect also Debian/devel/ etc. Unrelated suggested: Currently, this needs manual configuration. I find that Firefox is pretty smart in something similar (different default download folders per domain). Maybe most users would already be happy if for every folder, the last used account is remembered and used as a default?