kmail wrong address when answering

[Perry]

Le dimanche, 7 décembre 2014, 09.45:24 Steve Riley a écrit :
> On 2014-12-07 at 12:25:24, Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > thanks for answering but I believe I have the settings as you mention
> > 
> > > When using muliple identities and accounts, you need to set up the
> > > correct
> > > associations. All of this is in the Configure Kmail dialog.
> > 
> > The identities on this computer are :
> > Perry(by default)  Perry<pwhite at bluewin.ch>  or
> > Sxxx               Sxxx<sxxxyyy at bluewin.ch>  (...or the gmail stuff)
> 
> Sounds good so far.
> 
> > > * For each receiving account, go to the Advanced tab and select the
> > > corresponding identity.
> > 
> > There is no such field in the advanced tab, but in the General tab I have
> > as user name pwhite at bluewin.ch or sxxxyyy at bluewin.ch or ...
> 
> Hm. What version of KMail are you using?
I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and got kmail 4.13.3
> 
> I have three identities on my system. One is called Steve-RileyZ. I've
> associated that identity with a similarly named receiving account, as you
> can see in this screenshot (receiving account, Advanced tab):
> http://i.imgur.com/6jtvgAX.png
Thanks for the pictures, but mine look completely different, perhaps because 
I'm using Pop and SMTP instead of Imap
The only relevant lines in the Pop dialogue (general tab) are 
the name of the account, which appears to be arbitrary but is used to retrieve 
the mail from the account, 
and the username, which is the corresponding electronic address.

To be explicit, for gmail I have an identity of "GMen", the username is 
xxx at gmail.com, the Pop account is named "GPop" and the SMTP is "GSMTP"

Thanks to your advice I associated the identities with the corresponding 
sending accounts, but there is no way to replicate this for the receiving 
accounts.

Actually the only things in common to the identities, the receiving and the 
sending accounts are the electronic addresses, named "electronic addresse" in 
the identities dialogues and "username" in the Pop or SMTP dialogues.

> 
> > > * You should also have a distinct sending account that correlates with
> > > each
> > > appropriate receiving account.
> > 
> > I guess the correlation is because the electronic address in the
> > identities
> > match the user name in the receiving account
> 
> No, I'm not sure KMail is smart enough do this. That's why these facilities
> exist to link accounts and identities. See next answer for sending account.
What is my identity ?
For gmail, if it isn't "xxx at gmail.com" it can only be "GMen", which appears in 
the column "name of the identity", but there are no such fields in the Pop or 
SMTP dialogs.
Do you think it is the "names of the accounts" that should match "the names of 
the identities", understand I should rename both my gmail Pop and SMTP 
accounts "GMen" instead of "GPop" and "GSMTP" ?

> 
> > > * Then for each identity, go to the Advanced tab and select the
> > > corresponding outgoing (sending) account for that identity.
Great, now if I'm writing as GMen I don't have to use "send via...", Kmail 
knows what to do if I just use "send".
> > 
> > same thing goes for the sending account.
????
> 
> Continuing my example, I also have a sending account with the same Steve-
> RileyZ name. I've associated that sending account with my identity, as you
> can see in this screenshot (identity, Advanced tab):
> http://i.imgur.com/ltyMIBY.png
> 
> > Did I miss anything you can spot ?
> 
> Take a look at my screenshots and see if you can duplicate similar settings.
> Let me know how it works for you.
For sending it is OK, I can take a different identity when I write, which is 
the only way I can take a different identity than the default.
For receiving I can't duplicate your settings but I just have to open the 
correct Pop account. I don't think Kmail needs to know anything else.


I tried to change the default identity and got a symmetrical results.
A new mail opens with this identity but a reply to a mail opens with the 
identity to which the original mail was sent, clever enough.
What remained wrong was that on using "reply" Kmail still 
mixes up the original sender address with that associated to the identity of 
the person who replies, but only if those are both configured in Kmail.


...Perry

> 
> 
> ...Steve

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