GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 253600
Evolution should intellegently guess email address when replying, forwarding or composing.
Last modified: 2004-01-30 04:23:54 UTC
Evolution should intellegently guess which email address to use for the 'From' address. For example, imagine a user has a number of email addresses as follows. user@local.com.au (a POP based account) - DEFAULT user@imap.com.au (a IMAP based account) lists@local.com.au (an alias for user@local.com.au) When COMPOSING a new message, evolution should use the From address related to the folder selected. So, for example, if a folder in the IMAP account is selected when a new compose window is opened, the user@imap.com.au should be used. Even better, if the folder contains emails for a different address (say lists@local.com.au) as is common when filters are used to populate folders, evolution should use this address, rather than the address the account is based around. When REPLYing or FORWARDing, then Evolution should use the email address that the email arrived via. So replying to an email sent to lists@local.com.au would se Evolution set the From address to lists@local.com.au. Currently (AFAICS) all messages default to the default account.
it already does the best it can do. maybe we can implement the idea that someone requested to store metadata on the folder where a user can set the default from address and so on and so forth. the other option is for you to take a look at the code and see if you can come up with a better algorithm for making it more intelligent and then reopen this bug with a suggestion.
Fejj, From memory evolution-1.4.x did a much better job than evolution-1.5 is doing. At the moment all emails I write on my setup (very similar to example) are using the default email address regardless. Maybe this is a regression?