| Summary: | Use receiving email address on reply (identity-based) | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Robert <bytewise> |
| Component: | composer | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aceler, kde-2011.08, kde.bugs |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Robert
2005-04-17 17:59:46 UTC
Works for me exactly as you describe, KMail 1.8 branch 20050313. I'm using kmail 1.8 (sorry - forgot the version) as well, I guess this was added after 3.4 was released then. Closing. Please reopen if you can reproduce the critizised behavior. I'm on KDE 1.9.5 on Ubuntu, and I see that the From address is always the Default address, never the address to which email was sent. This has bitten me more than once. For instance, my default email address is me@my-home.com but I recieve email to business@job.com. When I reply, the From address is me@my-home.com. I just installed Fedora Core 6 and I can confirm that Kmail1.9.5 on KDE on KDE 3.5.5 still uses the default address on replied to emails. The expected behaviour would be for it to use the original email's TO addressa as the FROM address in replies. Is there any progress being made on this front? I hate Thunderbird and I really want to go back to Kmail. This works for me, but the address has to be an exact match. Ie. if your identity is set to "someone@example.com" but the mail arrives to "someone@mail.example.com" it doesn't detect it as the same account. It would be nice to have wildcard ability (so that "someone@mail1.example.com" and "someone@mail2.example.com" or address extensions such as "someone-foo@..." or "someone+foo@..." could be made to match). That's a separate wish though. In response to comment #7: I don't want Kmail to use an address only if it's an account. As I use a catch-all email address at my domain, I cannot make an account for each address- there are thousands of them. Each of my contacts has a different address for me. Tbird can be configured to use the To: address of the original email as the From: address of the reply, no matter what the To: address was. In response to comment #8: That's the same idea I'm looking for. Catch-all addresses would just be a special case of wildcard matching (ie. * at example.com). You'd need to match to an account at some level though, so kmail could pick the smtp settings, etc. I don't know how difficult that would be to implement though, it's been a couple of years since I looked at the kmail code. *** Bug 154429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > You'd need to match to an account at some level though, so kmail
> could pick the smtp settings, etc.
Kmail could use the Default SMTP settings, etc, in the cases where the From address does not match any account. This is how Thunderbird does it, and it is intuitive and logical behaviour.
*** Bug 72926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** As explained in bug #72926, users who use this system don't keep record of their valid addresses. Creating an identity for each address is impractical as there would literally be a different identity for each contact that the user communicates with. This was marked as "fixed", but there's no comments explaining what was done to fix it. As far as I know this still doesn't work. Should this be reopened? Bug 72926 was marked as a duplicate of this (the newer bug) but has since been disconnected from it (according to that bug ticket). This bug was closed because it is asking for identity-based reply matching, which works. Bug 72926 asks for reply matching addresses that are not configured as identities. I am making that clear in the titles now. I had a mismatch previously. |