310663 - Possibility to set a default outgoing mail-account per folder.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166293

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Marcel B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

I'm using an IMAP Server to receive mails from multiple POP3-Accounts. The
emails are going into seperate folders (thanks to procmail). When I want to
reply to an email Thunderbird wants to use the settings from the IMAP account.
I've additionally added my POP3/SMTP accounts to use them to answer the e-mails.
It would be a nice feature when the user can set a default mail-account per
folder Thunderbird should use to answer the mails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an IMAP and a POP3/SMTP account
2. Answer e-mails from the IMAP account


Actual Results:  
Thunderbird wants to use the IMAP account to answer the e-mail.

Expected Results:  
The user should have the possibility to select a default account per folder when
he wants to answer an e-mail.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

As noted at the dupe, there is an old patch (for the suite) at bug 200872, but 
it needs to be updated (because it's old) and maybe ported for TB.

NB: When searching for dupes, be sure to check Core :: Mailnews categories.  
Altho, I would file 166293 under 'Composition' instead of 'Backend'.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166293 ***