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!

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Regards,

Sri Ramadoss M
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