Opened 16 months ago

Last modified 16 months ago

#18556 new enhancement

Add 'Aliases' to E-Mail preferences

Reported by: humdinger Owned by: bga
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/E-mail Version: R1/beta4
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

This is hrev57217, 64bit.

Many email providers allow having aliases, we should be able to configure mail_daemon to use them and Mail to choose the alias from which to send a mail.

The E-Mail prefs' Account settings could show an 'Aliases' popup menu. Mockup:

E-Mail prefs mockup

It contains by default a <no aliases> item, plus an Add alias and a Remove current alias.

Below you enter the alias's Real name and Return address

Clicking Add alias opens a modal window to enter the alias name.

Clicking Apply saves the alias with its "Real name" and "Return address".

Once you have aliases configured, they appear with the chosen name and return address in Mail's "From" popup:

The Mail window for illustration

Of course, that's just the GUI part...

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email-prefs.png (19.7 KB ) - added by humdinger 16 months ago.
E-Mail prefs mockup
mail.png (16.0 KB ) - added by humdinger 16 months ago.
The Mail window for illustration

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Change History (4)

by humdinger, 16 months ago

Attachment: email-prefs.png added

E-Mail prefs mockup

by humdinger, 16 months ago

Attachment: mail.png added

The Mail window for illustration

comment:1 by nephele, 16 months ago

on the left side below incoming outgoing and email filters there should be a new tab called addresses in which you can configure this imo. Likely just as a list in which you can append adressed you want, with the option to overide the real name if needed.

comment:2 by nephele, 16 months ago

The From header should also be editable as text, with a seperate account popup to the right of it, so this can be used ad-hoc.

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