[dev] "Recipient address does not match the currently selected identity"

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> This seems rather unfriendly. First of all the error message is  
>> confusing; even knowing the code I didn't know what it could mean.  
>> It might be okay if it was smart enough to somehow know which  
>> addresses were list addresses and which weren't, but it's not. I've  
>> seen this:
>
> Very confused by this statement.  IMP isn't smart enough to figure  
> out whether the message is a list message or not - more accurately,  
> IMP doesn't care.  It is the *user* who explicitly determines this  
> via their identity preferences.
>
> This recipient checking feature has *nothing* to do with list  
> addresses - it deals solely with tied addresses.  OTOH, list  
> addresses are probably the main thing tied addresses are useful for.
>
>> - when sending to one of my email addresses from another (why do I  
>> need to do that? probably no reason, though pgp could be one. but  
>> why should it ever fail, or require me to "tie" addresses? what  
>> does tieing an address mean, anyway?). None of my personal  
>> addresses are list addresses.
>
> As far as tied addresses - if you are unsure of what they are then  
> this is probably bad news on our part re: documentation since tied  
> addresses have been around for 6-7 years.  A tied address indicates  
> what identity to use when replying to a message.  It is a list of  
> From e-mail addresses that are used, at the time of replying, to  
> determine what the default identity should be.
>
> IIRC, the recipient checking algorithm is as follows:
> 1. If the message is not being sent to a single e-mail, don't do  
> identity check.

Why not? I'm not sure this is really what you meant, but of course we  
need to pick the correct identity even if I am only one of many  
recipients.

> 2. Generate a hash of addresses for each identity.  The key is the  
> identity e-mail address, the value is all of the e-mail addresses  
> tied to the identity address **including the identity e-mail  
> itself**  (This is pseudo code - the actual code is optimized and an  
> in-memory hash isn't created)
> 3. Find e-mail address in the hash generated in Step 2.  If the  
> identity is not the same as the identity used to send the message,  
> output a warning.

This confuses me. This only makes sense if the message I'm replying to  
is actually sent from *any* of my identities (tied or not), right?
In any case, this should really be a warning only, not an error like  
on Chuck's screenshot.

> The issue you have raised has to do with including the identity  
> e-mail itself in the the list of addresses for an identity.  You've  
> raised a case that seems to indicate that these e-mail addresses  
> should be excluded from this list.
>
>> - when sending to my wife and my shared email address (which I also  
>> have an identity to send from) - I suppose you could argue that  
>> this is a "list" address, but I don't buy it.
>
> Sounds like the same issue as above.
>
>> - in the case already outlined. I can delete my identity for  
>> core at horde.org, but going back to your explanation - I haven't set  
>> up any of my identities to be tied to anything, as far as I know.  
>> So why am I seeing this error?
>
> This still sounds like the same issue.  Obviously, if no tied  
> addresses are available, we shouldn't be doing this check so if  
> that's not happening, it is a bug.
>
> But I firmly believe that if any tied addresses are being used, this  
> check MUST be mandatory (i.e. no pref to turn this off) .  That's  
> kind of the whole purpose of using tied addresses in the first place.
>
> michael
>
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Jan.

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