Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As you all know, Mahogany uses the concept of identities.
>
> I know how the developers use them but I'm curious to see how
> non-developer users are using identities. Are they useful / crucial
> / not used / what is an identity or what :-)

Hmm, I do not yet use M as my main mail/news reader, and I don't think
I'd have a need for multiple, global identities, but here is my take
on how I would like it to work:

I used many different email addresses, mostly of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace the '*' with whatever, f.e. "mhgny".

I routinely split my mail based on the envelope (destination) address.
Sometimes I use different criteria.
Now, when I want to reply or send a new message/article, it would be
really nice if the MUA could *automatically* put my identity for the 
currently selected group into the header.

It would also be nice if all "identities" and filters were in the same
config file in human editable form because going through a GUI for
more than a few groups is a royal pain.  I am thinking of a config
file with group headings followed by attribute:data pairs, f.e.:

[Mahogany]
FilterAccept: X-Envelope-To\: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Spook: Nuclear Atom Terrorist Bomb Anarchy
Fcc: ~/Mail/Mahogany/
SigFile: ~/Mail/Mahogany/Signature.txt

Unrecognised attribute names should be taken as additional, custom 
headers.

It would also be cool if the MUA had a few registers (like memories in
a calculator) which would automatically be loaded with certain,
configurable fields from the currently selected message/article, f.e.:
To, Cc, From, Envelope-To, Reply-To, Followup-To, Message-Id, bodytext.
While composing a reply or a new message, I could then insert from the
registers whatever field I need.

Presumably, most of this can already be done in M (maybe with python), 
I have just not discovered all of it yet.  :)

-- 
Manfred
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