[dev] identities

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> Now that we have per user prefs, how about extending this somewhat
> to allow a user to have multiple identities?  Initially I thought
> this could just be a simple list of alternative From: addresses which
> would show up in a drop-down instead of a text-field in the compose
> window.  But then, stuff like a different signature for each identity
> could also be done.

[Sorry, just getting through my mail after being away last week.]

pine 4.21 has these (called "roles") and I've just started using them in
the past few weeks.  It takes a little getting used to [I've gotten a lot
of bounced messages from the Horde mail server ;-)] but I really like it.  
They encompass From, Reply-To, signature, and the folder into which saved
mail is stored.  You can define patterns on header fields so that it can
auto-guess which role you want to use to forward/reply, for example... or
you can select the role manually.

I think this would be cool to have in IMP.  A friend of mine said that
pine is the only client he knows that does this... it would be cool if we
had it too.

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Brent J. Nordquist <bjn@horde.org>
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