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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Multiple Identities (was Re: New config dialog)
From:       Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-03-17 6:38:10
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Actually this doesn't work for me. I have multiple email addresses,
sanders@kde.org, don@sanders.org, dsanders@cch.com.au, the first two just
redirect mail to the third one. So I have multiple email addresses and one pop
account (or multiple addresses and one local account as I use fetchmail at
home at the moment).

When I reply to a message I would like KMail to automatically set the
"From:" address to  whichever one of the above email addresses is used to send
email to me.

John Aldrich suggested a method for doing this by parsing the "Received:" fields
in the message header. I think this will work.

BFN,
Don.

<quote>
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Espen Sand wrote:>[...]>> <thinking>
>> It could be useful to support multiple  identities. Each identity has
>> it own email address, name and  signature. The identity must be
>> selectable (combobox) from  the "composer" window. The main
>> problem as I see it is what  to do with a signature that is already
>> present in the body text if one swicth identity. In eudora the
>> signature is not added until the mail is sent.
>> </thinking
>>
>The signature thing is no problem IMO. That can be changed.
>The more tricky part of it is to make KMail aware that there are
>multiple identities.
>
>People also suggest to have support for:
>
>- setting the identity depending on the (pop) account
>- setting the outgoing mail server depending on the identity
>
>IMO a good first step would be to have a list of alternative
>identities.  
>
>E.g. by adding a next-identity pointer to KMIdentity. Then we
>would have multiple identities and could change the rest of kmail
>slowly. The old code will still use the first identity, which should
>be the primary one.
>
>For the signature we could add a hack later.
>

Ok, I put on my ToDo some sort of support for multiple identities 
on the Identity page in the dialog. Something like this on the on the 
top of that page:

"Identity:" <ComboB: List of ids> <PushB: "Add new"> <PushB: "Remove current">

The first identity of the list can not be removed and will be named "Default"

And of course: In the POP setup dialog there can be a new combo where one
defines what identity to use.
</quote>

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