Need ability to exclude (disable) account from sending messages
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(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)
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(Reporter: aliledudiable, Unassigned)
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TB users often have more than one email account, and sometimes also NNTP accounts. However, often, or maybe even in most cases, they don't send out email from all of their accounts, but rather only from a subset of them. Currently, it seems TB does not support excluding accounts from being possible options for outgoing messages: You have to choose an SMTP server for each account; all accounts appear on the drop-down list when composing a message; and when you reply to a message in the inbox of some account, that account's identity is used for the reply.
Such exclusion should be possible, using a per-account boolean preference, and/or a numeric preferance for a "reply from" account/identity for a given account. This preference would gray-out the choice of SMTP server in the account's main settings pane.
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Updated•2 months ago
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Comment 1•2 months ago
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(In reply to aliledudiable from comment #0)
You have to choose an SMTP server for each account; all accounts appear on the drop-down list when composing a message; and when you reply to a message in the inbox of some account, that account's identity is used for the reply.
Maybe you mean "You can choose an SMTP server..."?
When you compose a new message or reply to or forward an existing message you don't typically "have to" select an SMTP server since each account defaults to using its own already setup SMTP server. You only "have to" select a server if you want to send using a different account's or a not-default SMTP server.
Such exclusion should be possible, using a per-account boolean preference, and/or a numeric preferance for a "reply from" account/identity for a given account. This preference would gray-out the choice of SMTP server in the account's main settings pane.
My proposed change over at bug 689067 provides an "enable account" checkbox at the top-level account settings. Currently it only affects incoming messages for the account. It prevents the imap, pop3 and nntp servers from being connected to and bringing in new messages if an account is disabled. You can still see existing stored messages in disabled accounts and you can reply to them. Maybe sending shouldn't be allowed for disabled accounts either.
If mail sending is also not allowed for disabled accounts, as you suggest, the list of servers in the accounts settings for SMTP should exclude or gray-out the disabled accounts. Also the list of servers you can select when sending a messages should also exclude or gray the SMTP servers for disabled accounts.
In any case, I would prefer not to have separate "disable incoming" and "disable outgoing" preferences/check-boxes for each account.
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