Closed Bug 128241 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Feature request: multiple identities

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44863

People

(Reporter: marten, Assigned: racham)

Details

It would be very nice if the mailnews application supported multiple identities:

I have a lot of e-mail addresses: one for mailing lists, one to submit to sites
that will probably spam me, one for school etc. The first two are
webmail-accounts, the last one is a pop3-account which mail is forwarded to my
normal account using fetchmail.
Right now, I created bogus accounts in mozilla for the webmail accounts - this
way I can select them as "from" in the compose window, but they aren't real
accounts because they don't have a real server set.

This way, I can use mozilla to send mail for all my accounts, even though I
can't read my incoming mail using mozilla.
The way I do this right now works, but it is not a nice thing to do - I manually
have to set the folder where send mail is copied to, I get errors when I try to
check for new mail etc.

A nice future would be to create a 3rd (4th) type account - "Virtual Identity"
(or something like that), as an addition to the current types: pop, imap and news.
I also have some thoughts what this should look like:
The create account dialog would ask for three things: the name and e-mail adres
that should appear on sent mail and the account to save mail/drafts etc. to
(this could be an IMAP-mail server or a pop (local-folders) account.
The new account-type would have support for all the functions normal mail
accounts have: [ ]Sent mail in HTML-format, Reply-To address, Signature etc.
I don't know that much about the design of the mailnews, but I think the easiest
way to implement this would be to take the pop-mail account as a template,
disable unneeded stuff like communication with the server etc. and use the
folder of the account referenced in the create-account-dialog.

This would be a very nice feature.
Please look for duplicates before entering a new bug - it was really easy for
this one.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44863 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified Duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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