GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605416
Add aliases for accounts
Last modified: 2017-03-27 09:52:27 UTC
It should be possible to add list of aliases. For example at my university mail address is formed by first_name.last_name<year_of_entry>@university or initials<year_of_entry>. I prefere to use first form but people send in the second form. However if I'm on a CC list in the second form Reply to all should not reply to myself but it should be threated as my address.
Related to bug 213863.
I would consider it a duplicate of bug 213863, which eveb had some patches in the day, but bug 213863 was closed due to a similar change in bug 215115, whereas I don't think it completely what Maciej proposed, which should be a simple list of emails belonging to you, stored in dconf.
That will be great if it can be implemented. I plan to use Zaclys email but they use identities/aliases. https://mail.zaclys.com/ I know there is a workaround but Evolution need a proper implementation. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EmailAliases#Evolution_Client Thanks !
Also see bug 740390 comment 1 for OAuth information on aliases.
*** Bug 740390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I made this happen. The settings can be found in the account Properties, at the bottom of the Identity tab. The aliases are just email addresses, but they can also override the name, when it's entered as "my name <address@example.com>". Email addresses without name inherit the name from the account itself. Created commit_3d7b647 in eds master (3.23.1+) [1] Created commit f982b73 in evo master (3.23.1+)
[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?id=3d7b647
Wow that's awesome ! Thank you very very much Milan !
You are welcome. By the way, I tried with a Google account sending as user+alias@gmail.com and the message had been received as being from user@gmail.com. When I tried the same with a different server then it worked, the received email matched the one with which I've been sending. I might note that I do not have defined such alias in the Gmail web interface, if there is any such option (which may or may not explain why the Gmail server changed the From address for me).
I'm guessing this didn't land in 3.22? It seems like it did according to: https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/tree/src/calendar/libedata-cal/e-cal-backend-util.c?h=gnome-3-22&id=3d7b647 (gnome-3.22 branch?) But I can't see this option in Evolution 3.22.6 (Fedora 25), either at the bottom of Identity for the account, or anywhere else in the account properties window (with an IMAP+/SMTP account). I take it I'm just misunderstanding the branch naming on git.gnome.org (since the commit was after 3.22 was released), and this is only available on 3.24?
No, it's not part of 3.22. What you see is bug in cgit, which pretends to showing branch gnome-3-22, but shows you master instead. There is no such file in gnome-3-22 anyway (remove commit id= argument from your URL and you'll see). And yes, this is only 3.24 material.
OK good stuff, at least I wasn't completely crazy then :) I had a look at 3.24 on a live ISO in the meantime and saw the feature, fantastic addition, thanks very much for it! I use a lot of aliases and it's been driving me nuts having to create a new send-only account each time and configure folders etc. ;)