[Users] Choice of "from" addresses

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Francois Ochsenbein wrote:

>I have several pop accounts delivering the mail in the same "inbox"
>directory. That's quite good, but when I reply to any of the messages
>stored therein, the sender address (the "From" element chosen by CM
>for the answer) is always set to a fixed address (the email address
>corresponding to the account used at creation of this "inbox")
>instead of the email address contained in the "To" element of the
>mail I'm replying to as it should be (since the "clawsrc" file does
>contain the "reply_account_autoselect=1" definition). I can of
>course modify this "From" element in the compose window, but that's
>tedious... Is there something I missed in the configuration of my
>accounts ?

We recently had a discussion on this in here and the result was that
the best approach would be to direct mail to specific folders in
Claws Mail and then create a template in each folder to make sure the
correct "From" address is always used. For those of us who receive
all mail in the default Inbox and not in separate folders, that would
involve some reorganization.

I was about to go through the reorganization process to use that
method, but your message prompted me to take one more look through
all of Claws Mail's settings to see if there's a simpler solution. It
turns out that there is.

This does it nicely without having to change anything else:

	1. Click "Configuration" in the toolbar.
	2. Click "Preferences..." in the drop-down menu that opens.
	3. Click "Writing" in the "Compose" section in the left pane.
	4. Put a check mark into the "when replying" box in the
	"Automatic account selection" section.
	5. Click the "Apply" button.
	6. Click the "OK" button.

Hopefully it will also work for you.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.