On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Thomas McQuillan <[email protected]> wrote: > More wishlist stuff. > > I generally give anybody that asks for an email address their own > address, like this mailing list, which gets "[email protected]". This > is nice for tracking what happens to submitted addresses, and there's > zero configuration on the server since everything get dumped into a > catch-all and can be filtered later or not. Spam-infested addresses > can be retired. This is all easy enough. > > But replying, such as to this list, requires in Mail and Gmail that > you configure an address in the preferences (Mail let|'s you do it > willy-nilly there, while Gmail asks you to confirm the address, maybe > to foil spammers). But in both cases, it has to be set up. It would be > very convenient to simply allow Letters to use the incoming address as > the from and reply address.
Honestly, I think this is not a very good idea. What if the message is sent to numerous people? You want Letters to show you the email address of everyone in that message as a possible account to reply from? If not, how does Letters know which email address you do want to use? If it's a message you were BCC'd on, then this feature might not work anyway. In Mail.app, there's a nice feature that allows you to quickly add email addresses to send from (additional personalities). In the Accounts preferences, you can add multiple email addresses separated by a comma in the "Email Address" field. (eg: [email protected], [email protected]). Now you can send email from either address with *minimal* additional configuration. Something like this in Letters would be great. My only beef with it in Mail.app is that it's not very obvious you can do this. Brad _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
