[kmail2] [Bug 450883] New: New identities have unreasonable settings for email address and outgoing account

[Lukas Ba.]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450883

            Bug ID: 450883
           Summary: New identities have unreasonable settings for email
                    address and outgoing account
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 5.18.90
          Platform: Kubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: config dialog
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: kdeu at web.de
  Target Milestone: ---

STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1-3
1. Preparation. Create multiple outgoing email accounts, e.g. 
   account-a, username-a, smtp.domain-a.com
   account-b, username-b, smtp.domain-b.de
2. Create new identity from template empty, give it the name
username-a at domain-a.com . I know it can be an arbitrary name, but it seems
reasonable for the user to use an email address as an identity name.
3. See/check what settings have been filled in for the identity

OBSERVED RESULT
Identity settings do not have reasonable values:
1. email address is empty even though the identity name is already in email
address format.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE, 4.
4. In identity settings, fill in the email address as username-a at domain-a.com.

OBSERVED RESULT 2.
2. In the identity settings Under advanced, the outgoing account may be set to
account-b. Sending email may not work (, because the email provider has blocked
sending email with a different address). The outgoing account setting is not
set smartly.

EXPECTED RESULT
1. email address should be filled in equal to identity name.
2. The user should be prompted to fill in an outgoing account instead of
picking an arbitrary outgoing account that doesn't work, or a reasonable guess
at the outgoing account should be made. A better pick would be account-a, where
the username and domain match to the email address much better, just compare
username-a at domain-a.com and (username-a, smtp.domain-a.com) and (username-b,
smtp.domain-b.de).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
 KMail: 5.18.1

COMMENT
If i configure an open PGP key, that doesn't match the email adress i get a
warning by KMAIL which makes sense. But configuring an email address that
doesn't match my outgoing mail domain does somehow not generate a warning. Even
though most providers will block such mismatching addresses.

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