[kdepim-users] Kmail not recognising alt identity

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

On Wednesday 17 July 2013 14.52.21 you wrote:
> On 17/07/2013 10:50, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 July 2013 10.12.56 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On 17/07/13 08:46, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> >>> I've set up Kmail to use two different identities. But sending
> >>> 
> >>>  mail using my secondary identity still adds the primary email
> >>>  address which is "not good". Any idea, what is wrong?
> >> 
> >> We probably need more information about your setup.  Do you use
> >> different folders for the two classes of mail?  If you do, check
> >> the properties for each folder.  There you can set an identity
> >> to be used for messages.
> > 
> > Oh wasn't aware of that being an issue. No, It uses the same inbox.
> > I only use it to check and reply on my organisation mail.
> > (Defaulting to the default identity).
> > 
> > I've got two gmail addresses, one private and one for the
> > organisation I belong to. I use Kmail to POP3 both accounts to my
> > laptop so I don't have to visit each on the web. I then want to
> > reply to my private mail using the default identity, and
> > organisation mail using my secondary identity. Or write mail with
> > either. Even if I change to my secondary identity when writing and
> > sending new email, the primary email address is used.
> > 
> > Does it somehow use the dientity set in the inbox regardless of
> > individual mailsetting unless I specifically select another folder
> > with other settings? Testing that now.
> 
> It uses the default setting unless you specifically tell it not to.
> There are at least two ways to do this -
> 
> 1) Separate the mail into folders and associate an identity with each
> folder.

Yeah, I've set a folder as belonging to my secondary identity. Didn't change 
behaviour when sending emails.

> 2) Open a compose window and look at the View menu.  Select the fields
> of interest to you (useful also if you use two different smtp
> servers).  This will enable you to use a header drop-down to change
> your identity when sending.  It will be applied to all outgoing mail.

This is what I am doing, and it still not honering the selection when sending 
email. =(

> This second one isn't automatic, but useful if you don't need to
> change often enough to make it worth setting up longer term.  Also
> useful if you want a visual check that things are as you expect :-)
> 
> Incidentally, it looks as though you (and some others) are putting
> your address into the Reply field.  The intended use of that is where
> you need messages to go to a different address than the one you use to
> post - e.g. sending from work, but want the reply to go to home.

No, I checked both, and reply-to is empty on both.

/Martin S
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