Pratik wrote:
> On 10/17/01 07:05 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> no, user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1,id2,id3");
> Ok, I get it. My opinion though is slightly different. I don't think we
> need to associate multiple identities with one account. I think we
> should just eb able to have multiple identities. period. You need
> identities only when you're compoing mail and at that time you'd use the
> drop down box to figure out which identity you want. At that point of
> time, it doesn't really matter which account the identity is attached
> with (I suppose it would only matter if SMTP server were an attribute of
> account and not of identity). So I'd be perfectly comfortable with
>
>
> user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1");
>
> followed by 10 different identities.
I feel the same way. Identities should exist independent from accounts,
but each account should set one default identity. So when composing a
new mail, the main identity would show up, just like it does right now.
But you have the drop down box, which would enable you to select any
other existing identity for this message.
This has another advantage: If seperate accounts could choose the same
identity as default, that would even prevent to have the same identity
pop up a couple of times (if you e.g. use the same mail address for
mail, news, and maybe a second mail account) in that drop down list like
it does right now.
AFAIK this implementation would not be very difficult in the current
mozilla architecture. It is just that nobody seems really seems to care
too much about this bug (yes, it is a bug IMHO).
Sebastian
