This seems reasonable, and perhaps something we can consider for the 1.5 development series. I think its already been suggested before, and even a patch submitted (it needed a lot of work to be generic enough).
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 01:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Evolution is terrific, and I've been using it increasingly more over the > last few weeks for calendaring, task management, and as an address book > (interacting with LDAP). However, the email system lacks one thing > that's keeping me from switching to Evolution for everything: > folder-specific settings. In Gnus (my current mailer of choice), you > can modify pretty much any setting on a folder-by-folder basis, and > those settings become the default for operations on the current folder. > This is wonderfully useful in the situation where one email account is > used for multiple disjoint purposes. For example, suppose that you use > Evolution in a corporate setting. You have a fair amount of > intra-office communication, subscribe to a few mailing lists, and handle > some tech-support email. Further imagine that you have a seperate email > address for each of these roles - one for talking to coworkers, another > for communication with the outside word, and one for answering those > support mails (because you *never* want to give an end-user your real > email address, right? :). > > In Gnus, this is a snap. You'd filter each of those mails into a > seperate folder, and give each folder a different outgoing email > address. Want to GPG-sign email, but with different keys depending on > roles? Piece of cake. Want one signature for internal email, but a > different one for mailing lists? It's a snap. Visiting a folder for a > mailing list and want to start a new thread? Simply start a new email, > and Gnus auto-populates the To: line based on the folder you're in (if > applicable). Want to have a project-specific folder where your response > to an email gets saved in the folder itself automatically, your boss > gets Cc:'ed, and you don't want a signature at all? That setup would > take about 10 seconds to create. > > I'd *really* love to see Evolution get this functionality as well, but I > don't have any experience as an application developer (or the free time > to start with this particular undertaking). However, I think that the > goal of having folder-specific settings should be as straightforward as > adding a way for the user to modify variables associated with each > folder, and accepting those variables as overrides to the global > settings. For instance, from the examples I gave above, I might create > these folders with specific overrides: > > Internal: > From-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from a list configured in > the email accounts editor) > Signature: "My boss is..." (configured from the email Settings > editor) > Signing-key: GPG:"internal" > > External: > From-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Signature: "My opinions are not those of my company..." > Signing-key: GPG:"external" > > Tech-support: > From-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Signature: "For more information, visit our site at..." > > Big Project Foo: > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > File-replies-here: Yes > > Evolution Mailing List: > From-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > What does everybody think? Does this seem like a reasonable thing to > hope for? > -- > Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
