On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> When I press 'reply' to a mail addressed to foo.com I expect that the > 'from' > address will be foo.com. Why do I expect this? Because for 2 years I was > using apple mail program which automatically did this for all the 5 ids I > was > using then. With kmail it is a lottery. Which means that when replying to > mailing lists, a good number of my mails get rejected because I have > replied > from the wrong 'from' address. There is a little check box called 'sticky' > in > the composer - no idea how it works. Anyone know how to solve this? > Well with multiple accounts, While composing messages, the From field should be a drop down box. Where in you can choose other ids if you want. Evolution and Kmail are similar in this aspect. > My personal opinion is that this problem is called because kmail has > something > called a 'default account'. wtf is a default account? It goes without > saying > that mail to an account should be replied to from the same account. That is > default behaviour. If you want to reply from some other account, you should > be able to specify this. > Hmm.. If the To/ Cc field has [email protected] then while replying it takes that account into account. If it is [email protected] <http://bar.com/> the respective account is taken into consideration. But with mailing list the To/ Cc field do not have your personal id but the lists accounts. Hence while replying it uses the default account. Gotcha! -- Regards, Sri Ramadoss M _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
