Alan,
Alan in Toronto said: > Gary Stark said: >> Therefore I need it defined in SM, as there's no other way that I can >> simply type it in as my from address (that I can see) > > In any event, I believe you misunderstand the nature of how the multiple > identities feature works. Thanx for the input, but actually, I do think I understand exactly how it's supposed to work. <g> > If you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] defined as default, > but also have an identity for [EMAIL PROTECTED], when mail arrives > addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] your reply will automatically be FROM > [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's not a bug, it's a feature. Yep. If that's how it actually worked, I'd accept that too. But I'm seeing, far too frequently, mail that was addressed to (using your examples) [EMAIL PROTECTED] being responded to with a from address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail is very rarely sent by me from the alternate address, and very rarely addressed to it; I have it purely as an emergency backdoor. Responses to people who have no knowledge of that address - threads where the alternate address has never, ever, been brought into being - will spontaneously come up with that (incorrect) address selected in the from dropdown. That's where I'm seeing the issue - it just turns up unannounced! > Moreover, it's a > feature that many of us find very useful. I'm not disputing that at all. > You are always free to override the automatic FROM, bu pulling down the > drop-down selection list in the FROM field in order to select your > preferred address. Yes, and when I see that the wrong from address has been pre-selected, I do exactly that. The problem is that I don't always check, and I occasionally miss the opportunity of fixing it. But my point is that the pre-selected default address is somehow being spontaneously overridden, and there's no reason (such as the different address already being in use) that I can see for this. It truly seems to me as if there's a buglet somewhere in the way that the name selection process is invoked. I am tempted to even say that it's not just with replies that I send, but that it sometimes occurs when I'm composing a brand new message, but I can't say this for sure, although I do feel I have seen this happen from time to time. -- g. Gary Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Redbacksweb.com "All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
