On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:18:49 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:04 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:01 +0000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >> > I would love to see this feature too... it is just too annoying >> > having to go through a list of 100 dummy accounts and choosing the >> > right one... Why not have it the same way as the To, Cc and Bcc >> > buttons/input fields? >> >> I'm willing to entertain adding this feature but we need to work out a >> reasonable UI for it. A simple text entry won't work because Evolution >> needs to know what server to send the mail to and which Sent folder to >> place the mail in once it's sent. That information is specified in >> your account settings. So the message still needs to be associated >> with an account, even if the From address is altered. > > That's an interesting point. All my sent messages get dumped into a > common local "sent" box but I see in preferences where that can be > change. > > Good point on the smtp server issue, which brings up yet another point, > where I've gotten burned. There have been times where I've gone to > reply to messages where the smtp server for that account was > unreachable. Guess what... I can't reply to them. But if I select an > account I can send messages from, then the From address is no longer the > address I received the message on. I've had that problem numerous times > when I'm in road warrior mode (especially out of the country). I hate > dicking up my account preferences every time I change location. > > Being able to select an account (for default from, smtp, sent, > signature, and security keys - PGP or S/Mime) and then modify at least > the From would be beneficial. But the issue is more complicated. All > these orthogonal variables are lumped together as an "account" when some > of them truly are independent or even (in the case of From) unbounded. >
This sounds like the following enhancement request; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321016 In comment 1, I mention how kmail handles this separation of accounts and identity. Cheers, Nick _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
