On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 17:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > Depends on what you think an alias is. To me an alias is an address > that should be treated like something else. So if an address of > f...@blogs.com is the main address and j...@blogs.com is an alias, > then > I would expect that if mail arrives with a To: address of > j...@blogs.com, Evolution will treat it like f...@blogs.com. So when > you > press reply, the reply will come from f...@blogs.com. > > If you are expecting to treat fred@ and joe@ differently, then they > are > not aliases, they are separate addresses that happen to be in the > same > folder (possibly).
The alias begins right at the sever. When you setup your email address f...@blogs.com on the server, you can specify aliases such as joe@blogs .com which are delivered to the same address. So when you setup an account in Evolution as f...@blogs.com it will include messages in the inbox for any alias setup on the server. Adding an alias to the Evolution account means you can send messages from those aliases you already have setup on the server without having to setup individual accounts in the mail client. So instead of sending the message from f...@blogs.com, you can use the same account, but send from j...@blogs.com. That is essentially what an alias is. Also, when you receive a message sent to j...@blogs.com, and you reply to it, Evolution will send it from j...@blogs.com. If you don't have the alias setup, Evolution will send it from f...@blogs.com. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
