360927 - Identities editor needs a unique identifier seperate from addresses.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318495

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Belfer-Shevett]

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When setting up multiple Identities, there's no way to distinguish between identities that have different settings, other than changing 'Your Name' or the email address.  Unfortunately, changes to 'Your name' also show up in the outbound mail.

For example, I want to set up identities that have different 'Save copy to' folders, however they all come from the same account.  If I have 5 customers I regularly interract with, I want to save mail to each of them in different folders.  I set up an identity for "Mail to ABC Corp" and one for "Mail to DEF Corp", each with their own seperate "Save copy to" folders.  But my name, email address, and reply-to address are all the same.  

In the Composition window, for the 'From' pulldown, there's no identifier showing which one I've selected.  

Adding an 'identifier' ('Mail to ABC Corp') would make this much better.  I'll note this function is in Evolution, KMail, and Pine - the other mail clients I've used extensively.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create multiple identities that have the same source email address
2.Select different 'Save copy to' folders in the Identities dialog
3.Go to Compose, click the From: pulldown, and note there's no distinction between the various addresses.

Actual Results:  
There's a list of mail accounts that are not distinguishible from each other.

Expected Results:  
Tagged each entry with a different identifier.

Comment 1

[Tom Metro]

Dupe of bug 318495.