Bug 273428

Summary: bind identities to recipients (for mailinglists and privacy)
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Hauke Laging <hauke>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: carl, HJKarbach
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Hauke Laging 2011-05-16 18:23:41 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

It would make sense to be able to configure a certain identity for recipients (and a default identity for each own email address). There are three problems which would be solved by that:

1) Mailinglists usually hide the recipient's address so it is not possible to select the right identity. I often have to check which of my addresses to use as from address before I write to a mailinglist. The correct address should be chosen automatically.

2) When using forwarding addresses (which are not used as from) automatic selection fails in the same way.

3) I use several identities for the same email address. They differ in the signature. When sending mail to people from an organization I am a member of then I put non-public links in my signature. It could be bad if accidentally used the wrong identity for sending (mainly: replying to) mail. KMail should use the default identity unless the recipient is permanently or the composer window is manually configured to use a certain identity. It would make sense to have both a global default identity (which is used when you write a new mail) and a default identity for each email address (which is used when replying).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Juergen Karbach 2013-09-04 14:01:32 UTC 
I confirm.
I use different identities and accounts too (7/3). Therefore i need different templates, signatures.
So it would be a good idea to have recipient based selection of identity AND mail account as default.
I would prefer a KAdress based solution, like KMail's crypto selection.

OS: OpenSuse 12.3
KDE: 4.11.00
Comment 2 Carl Schwan 2024-03-12 22:14:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182614 ***