GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215161
auto-selection of wished own response-mail-address
Last modified: 2013-10-08 11:31:19 UTC
It would be nice if Evolution Mailer will set user identity automatically when composing mail depending on current folder or using a special filter rule (e.g. to set sendind identity depending on receiver address). Both KMail and mutt have such ability and it may be quite usefull if you you have more than one mail account and use all of them hardly. Thank you for perfect GPLed software :) -- Alexey Naidyonov Itoola, Inc.
I presume it's useful to say I too would like this feature?
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related to bug 213863, adding mostfreq keyword (are 7 dups enough? :-)
also see bug 344030
AFAICT, evo selects the identity related to the folder you are currently watching since 2.6 at least. So I would say this bug can be closed.
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To Comment #11 from Gilles Dartiquelongue: No, it can't! I'll explain why: Consider a use case, where you want to send all mails to a specific person from a specific account. The current evo behavior forces you to check/change the account for each mail, because it uses the account related to the current folder, which may be quite random. It would be really nice if each contact would have attached a default account to send from. This could either be entered manually in the contact editor or it could even be determined automatically on the fly when sending mails.
Altough it sounds nice, I think it's way overkill to implement this. But devs could decide otherwise.
Agree that this is overkill; Evolution already defaults to the currently selected account as the compose identity. One assumes the user would be replying to a message stored under a given account - as that account [that just makes sense].
This would be very useful for mailing lists. It's quite common to have mailing lists that allow only mails from subscribers. If I decide to send a mail to a mailing list, Evo should choose the right from address based on the recipient, no matter which folder I am reading at that moment. Taking care of simple rules like this is what computers are for, that's why programs like KMail, Claws Mail, mutt etc. have an option for it. It's also not uncommon to pool mail for different addresses in a single account: i don't need corresponding account folders for every mail address configured in evolution. For replies, this problem is taken care of, the recipient address of the original mail is used as a sender address. For new messages it is annoying that I have to keep track of this myself. IMHO, an option "Preferred account" in Contacts would be much more useful than setting whether somebody likes HTML mail. The option should be hidden if there is only one account, to keep things simple.
I added related functionality within a fix for bug #215115, thus I mark this as a duplicate of it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 215115 ***