[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: imp compose.php message.php imp/lib/Identity imp.php

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
>
> | Both.  Maybe we need both an alias and "affinity" type field?
>
> Maybe I didn't make this clear in my original e-mail, but this is what I
> proposed.

Nope, what I said above (two fields, one for alias and one for affinity)
is exactly what you are saying below.

> The functionality we are trying to obtain seems to be as follows.
> Me (w/"aliases"):
> =================
> * Use to prune self-addresses when replying to all
> * Used to determine if a message is "personal" in the mailbox/message
> screen.  VERY, VERY handy when I only have a limited time to look at my
> INBOX - helps me to identify what messages are most important to look at.
> Before, this wasn't catching messages sent directly to me, just not to my
> final e-mail address.  The new code does this now.
> * Identify messages sent from yourself so that, in the mailbox page, we show
> the 'To:' address instead of my personal identity in the From field.
>
> Jan (w/"affinity aliases"):
> ===========================
> * Used to determine which identity to use when replying to message.
>
> It seems like these are mutually exclusive goals, and that we need a
> different preference storage for each one (i.e. I may have 2 addresses that
> are aliases of mine, but I want to reply with a different identity
> depending on which one it is).

Yes, I agree.  But I'd want to maybe also include some form of wildcard
support if possible, which you didn't mention, and which you removed
from the original code, no?

> michael


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Eric Rostetter
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