Brian Heinrich wrote: > > And, really, do we want Mozilla to become yet another tool in the > hands of spammers? ;-)
I don't think spammers would be the least affected by MI support in Mozilla. Users, however, who want to partition their e-mail interactions between potential spammers to combat spam could save a lot of trouble if this were explicitly added. > BTW, I fail to understand just what the issue is w/ 'multiple identity > support'. I'm assuming you're not talking about MPD. I concede the jury is still out on that one :-) MI is a great tool for dodging, tracking, and managing spam(mers). It allows you to easily drop a single spammed account without disrupting delivery from other sources. In fact, I've been thinking of designing a mail client/server api/service that *automatically* creates and manages separate identities. It would have the following features: - while composing a message, the ability to create, on the fly, a new mail alias related to the addressee. Any further correspondence to the addressee would use this new identity as the default. (Currently I have to ssh into the server, add a new alias in qmail, and create a new account in Mozilla). - once you trust a mail recipient, an option to forward mail to the old alias to your real account, or perhaps another account at a higher level of trust, and set up an automatic reply from the old address informing the sender of the new address. - a database that associates website accounts' account management login pages with the e-mail address you used to register with that site. This way, when you drop or change an email account, you can go directly to registered websites and update with the new. Ideally this process might even be automated (maybe integrated with Form Manager?). > And, really, the venting of spleen and frustration aside, Yes, it was spleen-venting, after having to go in and recreate a couple dozen accounts yet again for use with new release of Mozilla. > the only > appropriate response to your posting would be 'Bite me'. So I can put you in the "yes" column for the blowjobs? :-) But seriously, has anyone modeled the relationships between server, account, identity, preferences, etc. wrt to mozilla mail, or has the development proceeded ad-hoc? I'd think if the former, there would have been recognition of the MI issue before development got too far.
