[kdepim-users] A suggestion for kmail

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:51:25 David Goodenough wrote:
> The difficulty is the flow in which things happen.
>
> 1) You sign up to a mailing list giving them an email address
>
> time passes
>
> 2) You receive a confirmation email and reply to it to be sure you meant it
>
> more time
>
> 3) You get the first mail from the list and read it in your InBox
>
> could be some time later
>
> 4) You create a filter during which you create the folder from the create
> filter dialog.
>
> 5) You run the filter on the mail you have just received moving it to the
> new folder.
>
> 6) You might now move to the folder, and get it associated with the mail
> list and associate the right email address, but I tend not to as I have
> a bunch of other emails to read so I move to step 7.
>
> again, could be some hours later.
>
> 7) Another new item of mail arrives in the folder, and you read it.  You
> remember that you did not do 6, so you do it now.  The dialog finds the
> mail list and now you have to find out which email address this was sent
> to so that you can set the properties default address.  This (in my case)
> needs to change the header view (to all fields) and then find the route
> that the mail came in which tells me which id it was.  Then I can update
> the properties.
>
> With either 6 or 7 I have moved away from the relevant InBox so I have
> forgotten which email address it was.  I have to look in the full headers.
> And it might be hours since I signed up and knew which address I had
> used.
>
> This is not a must have, just a nice to have, but I think it is worth
> considering.

Sorry, but you have failed to convince me :-)  Create a folder while you are 
waiting for the first message, and go through the settings for it, including 
setting the sender identity.  Easy.

Anne
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