>> mm changed the displayed in gui From: (from [email protected] to >> [email protected]) when i typed the to: [email protected]. > > As Jolin Warren explained upthread, MailMate can be configured > either to use a single explicit account as the default origin of > every new message, or to derive the origin “from context”. > The “from context” heuristic seems either to be buggy or to use > a bad strategy.
saw jolin's response and it was spot on. > On 25 Aug 2017, I reported this problem to [email protected], > under the subject > “Heuristic for choosing 'From' address gives unexpected/perverse results”. > > Some three weeks later, I no longer had resources for following up > on successive helpful replies from Benny. I decided that it would > be a smaller nuisance for me to pay very strict attention to the From: > address for every future message. > > This approach works, except when I don’t pay attention. 8-) sigh. i will make this error time and again > In particular, once a message has been sent to a particular > destination address, the From: address used for that message > seems to become bound forever as the preferred From: address > for selection by the heuristic for future new messages directed > to the same destination, without regard to subsequent explicit > choices of From: address. sigh. i write to the same people from work (and that is two ids with two separate accounts) and from my personal identity. what i need is an identity and from: address per imap account. my emacs/wanderlust mua does that. ;; futzing with the header (setq wl-draft-config-matchone t) ;; only match first (setq wl-draft-config-alist '(((string-match ".*@ran" wl-draft-parent-folder) ("From" . "Randy Bush <[email protected]>")) ((string-match ".*@iij" wl-draft-parent-folder) ("From" . "Randy Bush <[email protected]>")) ((string-match ".*@arrcus" wl-draft-parent-folder) ("From" . "Randy Bush <[email protected]>")) ((string-match ".*@email\.lboro" wl-draft-parent-folder) ("From" . "Randy Bush <[email protected]>")) ((string-match ".*@psg" wl-draft-parent-folder) ("From" . "Espresso Saarinen <[email protected]>")) )) randy _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
