[kmail2] [Bug 442387] New: "Use default identity" does not respect parent folder setting

[Brendon Higgins]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442387

            Bug ID: 442387
           Summary: "Use default identity" does not respect parent folder
                    setting
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian unstable
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: folders
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: brendon at quantumfurball.net
  Target Milestone: ---

Hi,

When creating a reply to an email, kmail consults the list of addressees of
that email to match an identity to use for the new reply - if it fails to find
a match, it chooses the identity based on the setting of the folder the email
is in. It seems that in this latter situation, it doesn't matter if the
*parent* folder has a non-global-default identity specified.

I could be wrong, but I feel like it used to be the case that if any parent
folder has a non-default identity specified, this would cascade to child
folders. Certainly this would make more sense to me as the default behaviour,
at least in my use-case - I have multiple accounts with different identities
specified at the top level (account) folder, but unless I were to set each
folder individually to use the applicable non-global-default identity, this is
ignored.

I would like to see identity settings cascade into subfolders, but on further
reflection I think "Use default identity" would make more sense split-up into
three options: 1. Use global default identity (i.e., the current behaviour), 2.
Use parent folder identity (IMO the better behaviour to have as default), 3.
Use another identity (user choice goes here).

Peace,
Brendon

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

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