Bug 89728

Summary:	Setting default Identity for entire account
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Rob Kaper <webmaster>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	josh, kde, Mathias.Homann, NewsAssi, sweetpea-kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
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Description Rob Kaper 2004-09-17 21:36:47 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.3.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 5.2.1-RELEASE

It is currently not possible to set an Identity for an entire IMAP account. I have to set the Identity for all folders in it, while in practice my different accounts almost totally sum up the need for different identities.

To make this work for Local Folders, those could be organized by identity/account as well (which would also help solve the issue that there should not have to be a visible Local Folders structure for those who exclusively use IMAP).

Comment 1 Carsten Burghardt 2005-04-05 17:36:54 UTC

*** Bug 103293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marcin Orlowski 2005-08-17 02:40:14 UTC

Long standing issue. Unfortunately very annoying - I use eight separate email accounts (IMAP) with dozens of folders. Being forced to manually set the Identity for each of them sucks, but even more sucks lack of automatic handling of this feature which, again, forces user to rememeber to set Identity by hand whenever s/he adds new folder to any of non-default account.

Comment 3 Mathias Homann 2005-08-17 12:49:10 UTC

my idea about solving this (adding this feature):

1. add a little checkbox to the "folder properties" dialog box: "apply to all subfolders"

- and -

2. make it possible to select more than one folder in the tree view

- and -

3. use the identity tied to the inbox of that account as default for subfolders if nothing else is configured.

at least 1. shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-03-19 14:39:02 UTC

*** Bug 136210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2007-03-19 14:39:41 UTC

*** Bug 138123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2007-03-19 14:40:05 UTC

*** Bug 143218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2008-11-29 23:52:45 UTC

IMAP accounts have the ability to associate an identity with them now.

This is not possible with local folders, since more than one POP3 account can add messages to the inbox. However, you can change the POP3 account settings to receive the mail to a different folder and set an identity for that folder instead.

Comment 8 josh 2008-12-01 19:37:59 UTC

Thomas,

Thanks so much for implementing this!  Makes setting up a new Kmail instance *much* easier.

--Josh