On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:14 AM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this local mailboxes (pop?) or server mailboxes with imap that the rules > are moving the files into folders for? I've long seen an issue where a mail > comes in to [email protected] but a rule moves it into a folder that resides in > [email protected] address. This is with IMAP and folders on the server. When I > reply, the from is set to the account for the mailbox the mail ended up in by > rules and not the one that received it. This has long been the case (been > happening to me on 10.6 and 10.7 at least since forever). Is this what you > are doing or is it different?
The accounts are remote, connection is IMAP. The "mailboxes" (the folders) that the rules move mail into are local. When replying to those emails, regardless of what account they came from, the "From" popup in the reply window was populated with the correct account (correct being From=To, I understand some people receive mail to one account but use a particular reply-from account in all cases, e.g. to get people to switch to using a new email address). But this behavior is no longer true in Mountain Lion. For example lists@ I get maybe 100 emails per day put into various folders (mailboxes), and when I reply, the email From address should be lists@ but is now always chris@. Naturally I routinely forget to check the From pop-up menu, and end up sending mail with the wrong From, which then bounces (or worse sits in limbo). If I disallow rules to move those emails into the proper list folders, so that the emails stay in lists@ inbox, when I reply the email From address is lists@. So it seems like the reply to From pop-up default is busted only when the mail is moved via rules. I could possibly solve this in the short term by using Smart Mailboxes instead of rules? The problem with that is the inbox gets full and messy quickly. And then takes the mobile a lot longer to sync. So there are work arounds, none too elegant. I actually think it would be easier to regress to 10.7.5 – but there are consequences of that too. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
