[Users] Users Digest, Vol 110, Issue 47

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Paul wrote:
>Little Girl wrote: 

>> Oh, that's wonderful news. It's working for me, too.  

>What a confused thread!

I'm sorry about that, but I don't understand why. It seems to make
perfect sense.

>Setting the enable_default_account to 0 in folderitemrc
>is /unsetting/ a default account for that folder.

Exactly. The default behavior of Claws Mail is such that there will
be a default account whether we choose it or not. The default account
insists on being used for all replies, which is what we don't want.
We want to use the "To:" part of the message we're replying to to
determine the "From:" address we're replying to it with.

We can opt to choose a default account (by clicking the
"Configuration" menu, choosing "Edit accounts..." from the menu,
clicking on one of the accounts in the window that opens, and
clicking the "Set as default account" button followed by clicking the
"Close" button) or we can let Claws Mail choose one for us. Claws
Mail will always choose the top account in that list, so we can move
an account to the top of the list if we'd like to force it to be
chosen.

No matter how the account has been chosen, the default account will be
used for all replies unless we intervene.

Let's say you have Account1 and Account2 and you've decided to set
Account1 as your default account.

If you receive mail addressed to Account1 and start a reply, you will
be replying from Account1. Most of us would be content with that.

If, however, you receive mail addressed to Account2 and start a reply,
you will be replying from Account1. You would more than likely rather
be replying to that message from Account2 since that's the account it
was addressed to. If you'd like to do that, you must manually change
the "From:" field in your reply. If you forget to do that, the
recipient will receive mail from Account1. This extra step and this
potential accident are what Francois and I were looking for a simple
way to avoid.

You had suggested a template approach, but the template approach
didn't handle signatures, so if any account the template chose uses a
signature, that reply would require user intervention to manually
insert the signature. There was also a large debate about the safety
of the template approach, which may or may not have been valid, but
that's up to the reader to determine. My reason for rejecting it as a
solution was because of the signature conflict.

Someone else had suggested filtering the mail so that it gets
automatically moved to separate folders on arrival and then setting
up the "Compose" section of the folder's properties in such a way
that all replies to any mail in that folder are from the specified
email account. This would work nicely, but would require those of us
who use the default Inbox for all incoming mail to restructure our
work-flow and get used to a different method of organization that
we're not as comfortable with as we are with the "everything in one
place" approach. I had considered using this and was about to switch
to it when Francois wrote his message and got me to take one more
look at the possibilities.

What I found was that these steps override the Claws Mail default
account behavior and cause Claws Mail to reply to each message with
the account that it's addressed to rather than the default account:

	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.

This neatly and smoothly handles the correct addressing of all replies
no matter which folder you're in and it's available with a quick
setting in the Claws Mail configuration options, so problem solved.
Nice.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.