Hi, thanks to a great work by two GCI students, Mohammed Nafees and Peter Amidon, we now have support for adding signatures (footnotes) to the e-mails and also ability to pick a "sender identity" when composing e-mails. Thanks for their work! The multiple identities is the thing which I'd like to focus on in this mail.
In Trojitá, the sender identities are not tied to the IMAP account at all; this is by design to allow use cases like mine where both personal and work-related mail not matching a certain rule get delivered into a single INBOX. What I'd like to have is a feature which picks up the correct identity when I click "reply". There are two ways to achieve that: 1) Add a list of domains (or regular expressions?) for each identity. That way, I can specify that everything which goes to or originates from company1.com shall use identity "Company 1", anything concerning company2.com or somefunnyproject.org shall use "Company 2" and anything else just the default personal identity "Personal". The important bits are that the list of domains "tied" to each identity will probably be rather small and that it will be always managed by an explicit user action. The good parts is that the user will always get a deterministic result, the huge drawback is that this feature would be rather difficult to discover. 2) For each recipient the user has ever sent a mail to, remember the used identity automatically and use that in future by default. The benefits are that this will likely fit most of the users quite well and without much effort. The drawbacks are that these data cannot be saved in an address book (trojita shall work against many different address book implementations and we cannot e.g. save stuff into LDAP typically) and that the data on which the decisions are based would not be visible to the user (they *could* be, but that's an extra work). (Thanks to R4md4c on IRC for proposing this possibility.) A few corner cases to keep in mind: Suppose that I'm subscribed to [email protected] mailing list -- or actually me [email protected] address is subscribed. Someone sends a mail to that list and I want to respond to th author off-list. I've never talked to that person before, so 2) falls back to the default identiy. However, if 1) was used *and* the algorithm consulted all recipients of the original message, I could have created a rule up front saying that anything matching "@community.example.org$" shall use the identity-2 instead of the default one. Anyway, if anyone has an idea about how to do this best, I'm all ears. As always, patches welcome. With kind regards, Jan -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
