[Bug 159251] Store per-contact From address in addressbook and use it in composer

[Dotan Cohen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159251





--- Comment #14 from Dotan Cohen <kde-3 dotancohen com>  2009-04-30 22:06:56 ---
> OK, I may work on a prototype (written in Perl and for
> Postfix, which is what I have on Mandriva, though it can
> probably be used for other SMTP servers, too.) 

Magniv!


> > Ideal solution: individual mails to everybody
> > Workaround solution: a warning to the user and an option to cancel
> 
> Well, if the SMTP server is the one doing the "From:"-address
> mangling, then it would be harder. It can pop-up its own message
> box (assuming it's running under X), and stuff, but generally,
> everything should be automatic.

I was thinking more along the lines of Kmail parsing the To and CC strings to
check if there were multiple recipients, then handing off multiple jobs to
postfix. But if postfix can handle the parsing itself then I suppose that would
be a solution as well. I do not know enough to judge what the disadvantages of
that method would be, however.



> If you want to prevent spam, use a good spam filter, but
> don't go to such extremes as not sending an email to multiple
> recipients. And email addresses are meant to be public.

The issue is that I do not want the user who knows my yosi at myDomain.com address
to even know that the gilad at myDomain.com address even exists.

> In case you did not notice, I have my email address with
> a mailto: and everything clearly available on every page of
> my home-site, unobfuscated.

I did see that when you got slashdotted. I wondered if that affected your spam
levels.


> Furthermore, if you want to send an email individually to
> several recipients. You can use the "Send again" feature.

That most certainly is a solution. As I am stuck on Thunderbird without this
feature in Kmail, I did not know that it exists. I do not think that it existed
in Kmail when I stopped using it last, around KDE 3.2 or something.

Thanks!

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