[kdepim-users] Identities in Kmail

[Stan Goodman]

At 22:22:18 on Monday Monday 15 September 2008, Lisi Reisz 
<lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Monday 15 Sep 2008 19:55:11 に Stan Goodman さんは書きました:
> > At 19:39:59 on Monday Monday 15 September 2008, Anne Wilson
> >
> > <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 September 2008 10:57:09 Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > I am using Kmail v3.57 in openSuSE v10.3.
> > > >
> > > > I have defined four identities for outgoing messages, a Default
> > > > for the great majority of messages, and three for specific small
> > > > groups of To addresses that I wish to bear variant signatures and
> > > > return addresses.
> > > >
> > > > In order to accomplish this, I have set three filters, typically
> > > > as follows:
> > > >
> > > > Under "filter Criteria" is a list of "To contains" addresses
> > > > ("Match any" is checked),
> > > >
> > > > Under "Filter Actions", "Set identity to" is set to the name of
> > > > the desired identy.
> > > >
> > > > On the Advanced page, "Apply this filter to sent messages" is
> > > > checked.
> > > >
> > > > This does not do what I expected, and the message nevertheless
> > > > goes out with the Default identity; without any change by the
> > > > filter. What, if anything, do I have to do to choose these
> > > > variant identities for those outgoing messages? If this is
> > > > impossible, I am at a loss to understand what is the purpose of
> > > > having more than one identity.
> > >
> > > Stan, I've never tried to do that using filters so I honestly don't
> > > know whether it's possible.  On my system I have separate folders
> > > for such criteria as needing a particular identity.  Then it's
> > > easy, using the folder's context menu
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Thank you, I understand. It must have been very obvious to the
> > authors that it would have been logical to provide an automatic way
> > to do this, and the team ran out of steam before doing it. One of its
> > members explained that recently in another context. It's fortunate
> > that there is a manual way to do it, though I think it is messy
> > design.
> >
> > The drawback of having to put the variant message into a separate
> > folder as you suggest is that one has to remember to do so. The whole
> > reason that I was looking for a filter to accomplish the switch was
> > that I had been changing the signature block within the message body,
> > but do not always remember to do this. Who knows? Maybe they will fix
> > this in the a future release.
> >
> > But then I do not grasp the purpose of the unexplained ability in the
> > Filter-configuration window, for allowing selection of identity; I
> > wonder if anyone does.
> >
> > Thanks again...
>
> Settings -> Configure KMail -> Identities -> Add -> give it a name ->
> OK -> fill in detailed tabs as desired (including signature which can
> be set for that particular identity).  Accept your handiwork and
> "apply".  Set one of the identities to be the default.

All that was done last January, when I first started using Kmail.

> You will now get offered the default when you send an email, but can
> easily use the drop down menu to the right of it to choose another,
> which will be accompanied by it's owb signature etc..  You do still
> have to choose the identity, of course, if you do not want to use
> folders.  But once you have chosen teh identity evrything else goes
> with it.  There is no need to change the signature in the body of the
> email.

Yes, I understood that I need to remember to select the identity manually. 
As Ingo has said, this is the result of a conscious decision on the part 
of the designers. I wonder if they bothered to ask users before deciding.

> Or you can set certain folders to use a particular identity, as Anne
> said.

That seems to be the only way.

Thank you...

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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