[imp] associate an account to specific "to:" addresses

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Andrea Zagli <azagli at libero.it>:
>
>> Il giorno lun 10 nov 2008 12:39:24 CET, Jan Schneider ha scritto:
>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't make much sense to me, because there are all kind of  
>>>>> issues, e.g. if you have more than one recipient in the To:  
>>>>> field, associated with different identities.
>>>>
>>>> but if already it works on reply, why is it a problem on composing 
>>>>  new mail?
>>>
>>> Because on reply you already know who the recipients were, and can  
>>> already set the identity in the link the opens the compose window.  
>>> And this works independently from the number of recipients. If you  
>>> compose a new message, you can only detect the identity while the  
>>> user is editing the To: field.
>>
>> as i said in my first mail, i would like this feature only if i  
>> compose a new mail by clicking on the address on a previous mail,  
>> not by clicking on the menu item "new message"
>
> Well, great that this would be sufficient for you ;-), but I doubt  
> this is a common use case.
>

Actually, such a feature would be more common than you suppose.  Other 
mail clients do this and is very common.

Earnie