On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:57, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> If you go back to probably even last week or the week before in the
> archives for this list, you'll find numerous messages complaining about
> 1.0.x "find my account from this message" behavior. In fact, every week
> there are lots of complaints. All of them wanted it the way it is now.
I knew I had seen some discussion on it - I couldn't find it when I
needed it of course (must have been in some other threads with
non-obvious subject lines).
> You're actually the first person that wants it the old way :-)
When it comes down to it there are 2 ways of handling multiple
identities:-
* Each identity has a separate mailbox - which fits the 1.1.x
method nicely
* All identities are delivered together.
In my case I have a hybrid method - since identities are delivered into
different folders on the same IMAP server, and unlike local folder
delivery, the entire IMAP server with all its folders is a single
account.
I think as more people move to 1.1/1.2 you are going to find more people
that dislike the new behaviour.... but you can't please all the people
all the time.
What is a problem is that for my configuration I either have to split
stuff into multiple IMAP sources - which is frankly impractical, or find
some other means of co-ercing the identity associated with a message.
Possibilities that would work for me would be:-
* Identity associated based on a special header in the message
(I can mod my delivery stuff to add headers easily enough).
This might be a bit too specialised for general use
* A filter being able to tie a message to an identity
* A folder being able to be assigned to an identity
I like the filter idea best since its most flexible (oddly enough thats
how Eudora can handle identities too), although I don't know if it would
be difficult to explain to new users. Then again this isn't really a
naive users feature.
I've actually dropped back to 1.0.x for now since that was causing me
significant pain :-}
Nigel.
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