[Users] Unintended addresses

[Abrolag]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:47:29 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Abrolag,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 19:41:25 +0000 Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > I send and receive a lot of emails and frequently dodge between accounts when
> > sending/replying. I really REALLY need a pre-send warning if there is more than
> > one address picked up.
> > 
> > This is getting to be a real nuisance.  
> 
> Picked up by who or when doing what?
> 
> I'm afraid there's no email agent that offers the feature you require,
> isn't there? At least in Claws Mail, it is not possible.
> 
> My feeling here is that *you* need to change your work flow or acquire
> a different habit.
> 
> > It must be possible to do this otherwise how would Claws
> > know to send the individual emails?  
> 
> That question makes me wondering what's the point? Claws Mail send one
> email with several recipients, the SMTP server handles this. What else?
> 
> 
> Regards,
>

Although I've been using Claws for a long time, I still have a lot of almost
unbreakable muscle-memory type habits from the software I first started with on
the Acorn Archimedes in the late 1980s. Not only did this have such warnings,
but you could even set how many addresses it would accept before giving such a
warning. This was mostly directed at preventing accidental cross-posting on
newsgroups but was very useful anyway.

I know that only one actual email is sent, but Claws shows these on individual
lines (maintaining a spare) therefore number of lines -1 = number of recipients.

None of my personal email folders have a default address so they *don't* add
this. It only happens if the last folder I looked at is a list one which does
have a default address - for obvious reasons. It is incredibly easy to forget
which was the last folder when working fast, and keeping several different
projects in your head at the same time.

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W J G