Bug 154469

Summary:	composing mail and settings: redesign default identity behaviour (default identity per recipent)
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano, putr4.s
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-22 13:49:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

General wish:
Ability to assign for To: address default identity. So default-default could be A identity but for To: x@gnu.org mailing list default would be B identity. So when user would type To: x@gnu.org identity would switch.

Suggested design:
The settings changes are rather obvious, in Composer it could be done by changing the identity from
[ Identity ] 
where this combobox contains only identities

to
[ Identity "mode" ] identity 
where this combobox contains word "auto" + identities. "Identity" is a label of identity. It is useful since it shows what Composer will use. Auto is selected as default when composing mail and Composer is allowed to change identity only in Auto mode.

Additional feature would be "remember assignment" to make settings of identities easier however now it is not clear for me where to put it. Similar to "sticky"? Maybe when user sets specific identity, identity label could be changed to checkbox "permanent assignment"?

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:26:02 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 2 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:23:37 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

Comment 3 Prajna Sariputra 2021-11-14 05:12:43 UTC

> Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

This feature is not present in KMail 5.18.3, so I believe it is still valid. I found myself almost sending emails with the wrong identity a few times recently, so having this option would be quite helpful to prevent that, especially in my case since I only ever use one of my identities to send emails to people in two specific domains anyway. Alternatively, simply having an option to not have a default identity (and thus have KMail ask which one to use every time) would also work for me personally.


P.S. Bugzilla's similar/related bugs feature when adding a new bug is what led me here.