[Users] Unintended addresses

[wwp]

Hello Abrolag,


On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:18:25 +0000 Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> 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.

Is this when you reply to a mailing list (or an alias or..), that you
would like to get warned of sending to several recipients? Or is it
more general? 


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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