[Bug 281505] New: Kmail2 way of creating message ids is disadvantageous

[malte.gell at gmx.de]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281505

           Summary: Kmail2 way of creating message ids is disadvantageous
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.7
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: misc
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: malte.gell at gmx.de


Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

KMail2 produces the message id in the way "random value at machine name". Earlier
versions of KMail uses a better way that made some interesting filters
possible: "random value.first part of email address at domain name of email
address". So, for example, old KMail created "81653vcJohnDoe at foomail.foo" when
a person sent email with his address JohnDoe at foomail.foo, now KMail just does
"81653vc at mylinuxbox".

I would like to have an option in KMail2 smtp settings to create message ids
completely to the users desire, to let the user chose the part before @ and the
domain after @.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start KMail2, write an email, send it and read the email at the receiving inbox
and look at the message id.

Actual Results:  
The message id contains a random value and the domain name of the local
machine, e.g."81653vc at mylinuxbox".

Expected Results:  
I would like to allow the user to determine the message id completely free,
e.g. "81653vcMYEMAILFIRSTPART at MYEMAILCHOSENDOMAIN". This could be done in the
smtp settings of each smtp account to introduce such an option.

The reason why I think it makes sense to allow the user to completely configure
the message id is the following; when you write to many mailing lists you want
to easily detect replys to your messages. When you can configure the message id
freely, you exactly know what strings will be part of the References and
In-Reply-To headers of replys to your messages. Thus you can easily detect
replys to your messages. Such a filter rule is not possible if you do not know
what the message id will look like. I know, KMail2 DOES allow to set the
message id domain name globally, but this is not useful if you use many email
addresses. All emails in this case will have the same domain name in their
message ids. Thus in my mind it is best to allow users to completely freely
configure the message id for each smtp account. Thank you very much. This would
allow powerful filtering.

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