On 16 Apr 2005 at 12:06, Wayne Johnson wrote: > >On 15 Apr 2005 at 20:46, Jim Dykes wrote: > > > > > Actually, it doesn't matter which identity you are using because the > > reply will > > > be sent from the identity to which it was addressed to start with. > > At 11:51 AM 4/16/2005, Bernie Cosell typed: > > >This is just wrong. > > I can't imagine any modern email app that can't do this. I've not tried > Pegasus in many years but it seems to me way back when I did try it that > this changing of identities was doable.
Well, it doesn't work that way. I don't even know how it could work in "any modern email app". I have 20 identities, 4 pop accounts and 3 SMTP servers I use. The mapping of which POP box a particular message shows up in doesn't tell my mail client much/anything about what identity [of the 20] I might intend to use for a particular message. How does that work in other mail clients? Where do they store the 'identity' information? Do they assume that there's a 1<->1 mapping from pop boxes to identities? Remember, that the SMTP envelope info is, in general, not available on the other side of POP3, and so there's no way for an email client to figure out what email address a message was delivered to: all it can know is which POP mailbox it happened to end up in [and indeed, as I said, Pegasus doesn't even keep track of that]. You can 'fake' it in Pegasus by sorting email into folders [using filters to guess which identity you might want to have associated with the particular message, and then you can assign a 'default identity' to that folder. For example, I *could* [if I cared] filter on to/cc/Received lines to tease out that a message was sent to me via my college alias [or my at-work alias, or one or another of my "postmaster" aliases for the various domains I oversee, etc], sort the messages into appropriate folders and then associate the various appropriate identities with the appropriate folders... but I've never bothered [but it IS possible]. How would a 'modern mail client' (more modern than Peg, I guess) make all this easier? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
