On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 17:36:06, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 22, 2011, at 17:30:04, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > >>> I think a better thing to do would be to build a plugin that makes sure > that when you hit reply or reply all, that it sends with the same account > that it was sent to. > >> > >> Mail already sets this by default, though. > > > > Then I'm not sure what the problem would be if it were working. The > scenario he describes, to me at least, seems like that isn't working. > > What you describe only solves the problem for replies. If he makes an > original message, or forwards something, then he would need to change the > account if he doesn't want to send it to contact(s) in a wrong group. The > plug-in he proposes would warn him if he fails to do that. > > Chaim, you might find the Address Book and its APIs useful to you. You can > group contacts in the Address Book application, and let the user map Mail > sending accounts to Address Book groups, and then present your warning if > none of the recipients of the message are in the group for the selected > sending account. > > I didn't even think of the ab api, that's a pretty cool idea to add to it. A warning would work, but would probably get annoying fast too. Maybe a warning in the first revision, and in the second see if the automated account switching is possible in new emails. If the account you are sending to has a matching domain in your email, you could automatically switch the sending account too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
