Bug 174174

Summary:	"Use default identity" checkbox confusing
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Christoph Neuroth <delmonico>
Component:	GUI	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	lemma, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.10.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christoph Neuroth 2008-11-03 15:28:16 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

When trying to set up kmail so that it uses a different sender idendity for a specific folder, this is what you have to do:
Righ-Click folder
Click "Properties"
Disable the checkbox "Use default identity"
In the now active dropdown box "Sender identity": change the identity from "Default" to some other identity.

So if I'm not missing something here, the "Use default identity" checkbox is pretty much... useless :)

Comment 1 Michael Leupold 2008-11-03 20:38:25 UTC

I can confirm this for trunk r879666. In my opinion it's not a bug however so I'm making it a wish. For my part I actually like it better like it is.

Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2008-11-14 18:07:42 UTC

The checkbox is useful if you have more identities. It is just unfortunate that the first identity is named "Default", which creates the confusion here.

The checkbox is needed so that when changing the default identity, the folder then gets the new default identity as identity.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:56:54 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 4 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-18 23:51:18 UTC

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