I am currently routing all mail for address "xxx" to subfolders of "INBOX.Personal" and to "yyy" to subfolders of "INBOX.Work". It would be great if I could not only assign two identities ("xxx" and "yyy") to this IMAP account, but also to configure it so that "Reply" on folders in each collection automatically uses the corresponding "From" address. I would suggest that this can be implemented by making sure that identities (or, alternatively, accounts) are tied not to a particular server, but to a particular namespace (by default, the namespace of the whole server). P.S. This is somewhat related to bug 44863. P.P.S. My current workaround is to setup two accounts, using two aliases of the server (BTW, why wouldn't it let me set up two servers with the same name?) and to specify the appropriate namespaces and identities in each. Of course, there are many downsides: connections are not shared, copy/move across accounts is slow, Sent/Draft/Trash have to be in a separate namespace and shown separately for each account. Is there a better workaround?

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kmail has this functionality for mailing lists. You can specify a from personality and a to address per folder for new messages where the to address is optional I think. Would be a nice thing to have ;-)

There are a lot of Email clients that have this. Eudora for instance. BTW OS should be set to 'All'

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Ooh, yeah, I want this. I added a couple bogus POP accounts, and when I send mail, I get a From menu with a list of them. Although each bogus POP account has its own folders, I set the account options to use folders in my main account for Sent/Draft/Trash. Looking forward to 44863 getting taken care of. It would be wonderful to be able to specify which e-mail address to send from by default when replying to a message in a certain folder. I have a bunch of addresses that all forward to one box, then I use rules in Mozilla to sort them into subfolders. This allows me to use biff/pine/etc when Moz isn't handy, and see new messages (regardless of where Moz will later sort them to) as they come in, so I don't have to deal with multiple accounts with seperate mailboxes. I'd like to be able to define a list of e-mail addresses that I can send from, then have a default address for each account, then be able to override that default on a per-folder basis (when replying), or maybe based on other criteria too (not sure what). Thoughts on UI?

> Thoughts on UI? It should definitely be an extra tab in the "Folder properties" dlg (probably named "identity"). Something along the lines: ---------------------------------------------- (*) Use default <xxx@yyy.zzz (name)> ( ) Use the identity: [drop-down box of idenities] [x] Make it default for the subfolders. ---------------------------------------------- The wording is pretty approximate, but hopefully it makes the idea clear. By default, the first radio button will be enabled (and will show the identity propagated from the "top" of the account or "parent" folder). When selecting the second radio button, the "subfolders too" option should be turned on by default. P.S. Personally I do not really care about UI, as long as it can be enabled somehow (UI, editing prefs.js, whatever), I'll be happy.

mass re-assign.

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bug 44863 is fixed now...

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I think shaver started a patch on this, I'll try to find that bug.

(In reply to comment #12) > I think shaver started a patch on this, I'll try to find that bug. Maybe bug 200872 comment 7 ?

Yeah, started and finished! =)

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Since bug 200872 has a patch (2.5 years old!) that is supposed to fix this, marking it as a dependency.

Were it not for the fact that Thunderbird (unlike Kmail) is cross-platform, I'd be using Kmail. It includes such features. I believe there are other MUAs which do as well.

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sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

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