198696 - Improve Support for Multiple Identities

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44863

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[Andy Gerweck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I must send emails with many different *From* headers (not all at once ;-). 
These addresses are all server aliases and not separate accounts.  This is a
*very* common practice in small-business environments.

To do this in Mozilla, I must create a large number of accounts--each of which
needs a POP3 server and a big list of settings.  I can ultimately get things
working the way I need, but setting up an additional identity is a hassle, and
too difficult for an average user.

There could be an /Identity Manager/ that allows many identities to fall under a
single /Account/.  This setup typically uses the same set of server settings for
all identities and just changes the information in the *From* header.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Sander]

bug 87987 might also be of interest to you

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44863 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

v