[Bug 218986] using multiple sending accounts the default outgoing transport is always used

[riaasm at yahoo.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218986

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--- Comment #10 from riaasm at yahoo.com ---
Using Kontact 4.4.11 with KMail 1.13.7 with KDE 4.8.4 on Debian unstable. 

I thought I had this bug too, but that does not appear to be the case after
all. However, there are some confusing things in KMail which I suspect are
making it seem like this bug is present. Note that I could send my mail from
the correct address when holding the Send button and selecting the correct SMTP
account, even when using the same identity.

There are two confusing things here that make it seem like this is not working
correctly:
1. The sent mail is stored in a sent-mail folder which is defined in the
identity settings. This means that the same folder will be used for all sent
mail, regardless of which SMTP account is used. It might be more useful to copy
this setting to the SMTP account's settings so it can be different for each
account (using the identity's setting as fallback option). This assumes that
identities are used to represent people, who can have different accounts which
are shown separately. 

2. Perhaps this is the more likely culprit for making it seem like this bug is
present. When you view the sent mails in KMail, it always displays the identity
in the "From" field, with the email address filled in in the identity's
settings. However, if you view the source email you'll see the header parameter
X-KMail-Transport which does show which SMTP account was used. It would be less
confusing if the "From" field showed the identity's name but with the SMTP
account name (which would be the same as the X-KMail-Transport value) after it
instead of the standard email address. Ideally, you'd want it to show the email
address corresponding with that SMTP account, if possible. 

Aside from removing false positive reproduction of this bug, changing this
behaviour would also improve usability quite a bit.

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