226396 - associate an identity with folder (start composition while viewing folder)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200872

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[L A Walsh]

User-Agent:       lynx 5.5 (vision impaired version)
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I have multiple folders that are associated with different
lists/memberships/companies, etc.  I use different email addresses for each of
the folders (cuts down on spam, makes maillist leakages trackable...like my
adobe specific email address is now on various junk email lists, but I've only
used it
for adobe product registration.  Tells ya something about adobe security and their
reporting procedures.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go into folder.  compose message
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
default email account is put into from address

Expected Results:  
the address associated with the folder...say folder "adobe-announce" would put 
'adobe-email@mydomain' in any replies to emails in that folder or if I am
view that folder and click compose.

Ideally, I could just select the email I wanted and not have to create a bogus
account for each email address as I do now.



technically it this is an RFE -- but it's also a minor loss of functionality --
the ablity to reply to an email address using the email address the email was
addressed to isn't easy or str8forward.  

There is a workaround -- create a special account for each folder and remember to
select the correct from address each time -- or
use Kmail from the KDE package which has this feature (an even less easy workaround
on win32...:-))....

Comment 1

[Noel St. John]

I just found this note.  I would like to have the exact same feature for the
exact same reasons.  I use Pine (email app) roles at work but Pine is **** on a
PC and doesn't seem to work well when sharing T-birds message folders.

-Noel

Comment 2

[L A Walsh]

You know, there is a very perverse work-around, I think *might* work now, but
is unverified.  I'm told some people are getting KDE to work under the Cygwin
environment.  Given the speed of Unix environments emulated on windows (Cygwin'
is actually faster than MS's own "Unix Services 3.0 for Windows"), it might
be like running on a processor of about 30-40% the speed of running KDE
native on linux, but it might work.

Even T-bird is dissapointing in memory usage.  I wondered why things were 
paging heavily when I have 512M physmem, Windows favors file buffers over
user programs -- even if you set the flag to the memory manager to favor
user progs over file buffer space...I think the flag maybe makes windows
faver file buffers less than normal, but I think it favors file buffers no 
matter what you say on that page.  But anyway -- Tbird was open, no windows
open except the main window open on my 1 IMAP account.  44Meg memory used
in *private* space (didn't see how much shared memory it used).  That's alot
of private space for displaying 1 message...

Comment 3

[Noel St. John]

Check out:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=300933#300933

Seems like this feature already exists but no UI.  I tried to open the bugs
referenced but couldn't.  Maybe I'm lame and don't know how to use the search
interface.


-Noel

Comment 4

[Bogdan Stroe]

*** Bug 244364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[bugzilla]

> I have multiple folders that are associated with different
> lists/memberships/companies, etc.  I use different email addresses for each of
> the folders (cuts down on spam, makes maillist leakages trackable... [snip]

I would love this feature too, with further suggestions:
- ability to look at the "received-for" part of the header, and default to that
sending address when replying to an email
- ability to override any outbound email's From address on the fly (for those
emails you have not configured a folder for)

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The UI for creating multiple identities has been in place for a while.

In addition, there is some intelligence in place when replying to a message 
that's been sent to a particular identity.  I think it's not so useful when 
dealing with mailing lists, however.  Related to this: bug 64267, bug 228980, 
bug 256314, bug 264626.

This bug, as an RFE, is still valid for composing new messages while viewing the 
folder.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This bug, as an RFE, is still valid for composing new messages while viewing
> the folder.

And not surprisingly, that feature is already covered by an older bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200872 ***