Bug 194232

Summary: sender/receiver column does not work as expected
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Andrzej <superandrzej>
Component: new message listAssignee: Szymon Stefanek <pragma>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: x3ri7yz02
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.11.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrzej 2009-05-26 23:41:12 UTC 
Version:           1.11.3 (using 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3), volkerdi@slackware.com)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28.10

I guess that sender/receiver column should show:
in inbox - sender and
in sent-mail - receiver

but now in both cases it shows sender what in case of sent-mail doesn't make much sens.
It seems that it is the same as sender column
Comment 1 x3ri7yz02 2009-06-03 12:50:14 UTC 
If you right-click on a folder and choose "Properties", you can choose whether Sender or Receiver is displayed. Does this solve your problem?

(I agree that "Receiver" would be a more sensible default for the "Sent Mail" folder...)
Comment 2 Andrzej 2009-06-03 23:05:58 UTC 
Yes, now I have it as I wanted.
But still this option was not easy to guess where to look for it and the description "Show column:" is not precise in this context. I was looking at it but I was not seeing it ;)
In my opinion less confusing would be:
- use "Receiver" for sent-mail as default
- put option for changing default/sender/receiver in right-click/context menu of the column header.
e.g.
   v Sender/Receiver
      o default
      o sender
      o receiver
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2009-07-05 01:20:54 UTC 
This should be fixed with KDE 4.3.0, but I can't find the original bug report right now.
Comment 4 Markus Straub 2009-08-05 11:56:28 UTC 
Yes this is fixed in KDE 4.3 now, thank you for removing this annoyance, great work!

For folders where this can not be automatically determined (i.e. in the Gmail/Sent Mail folder) one can simply
right click -> properties -> general -> show column -> receiver
and then everything works as one would expect.