[kmail2] [Bug 316533] New: Make Kmail2 able to connect smtp accesses and accounts to identities automatically

[Steffen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316533

            Bug ID: 316533
           Summary: Make Kmail2 able to connect smtp accesses and accounts
                    to identities automatically
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.10.1
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: misc
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: herrfleisch at googlemail.com

If the user has more than 1 mail account on the web, he needs to setup more
than one access in Kmail2. So far, so good.

For sending mails, Kmail2 is not able to set up a smtp account for, as example,
each IMAP account. Moreover, Kmail2 is able to connect, for example, Identity A
with IMAP-access B. But it is not able to connect this identity A and IMAP
access B with the smtp-account, which belongs to IMAP-account B. 
This is, while Kmail2 could read the username and password of the smtp-account,
which normally are the same as the username and password of the belonging
IMAP-account. 

Because Kmail2 is not that smart, but the user thinks that it actually is, the
user tries to send mails from Identity B, but the Mail will be sent via
Identity A, or if the service provider on the web are different for Identity A
and B, will not be sent, resulting in a failure message about "wrong password
and username". 
This goes on and on, until the user realises, that he actually needs to connect
the smtp-accounts manually to each identity. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up 2 or more mail accesses
2. wonder why Kmail2 sends mails over the wrong paths
3. search and find a small option, hidden in the config, in the "advanced" Tab
Actual Results:  
see description

Expected Results:  
Kmail2 should connect smtp accounts automatically to identities, or at least
ask the user or make him aware of this.

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