[Gllug] Evolution

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Dec 10 16:40:15 UTC 2001



On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 16:34, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> Xander D Harkness(xander at harkness.co.uk)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:19:58PM +0000:
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 16:12, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> > > OK, so after several people have been mentioning how good evolution is,
> > > i thought i'd give it a try.  And yes, it does look pretty good,
> > > certainly functional enough that i could place it infront of my
> > > non-technical mum, and expect her to get to grips with it.
> > > 
> > > But, i have a question:
> > > So in pine/mutt i can change the 'From: ' field based on some
> > > characteristics of the message.  Is this possible in evolution?
> > > And no, adding a new email account, for the express purposes of doing
> > > this, is not what i'm after.
> > > 
> > > -vince
> > > 
> > If you enter virtual email addresses - new email accounts without a
> > mailbox attached you can select one from a drop down in a compose box.
>  
> thats what i was hoping to avoid.  i know it's a perfectly reasonable
> solution, but it does mean that i've got to remember todo it.  which
> aint always gonna happen.

Yes nothing like replying to the girlfriend with the wife's email
account ;-)

Cheers
Xander
> 
> > Other than that they tend to follow different accounts.
> > 
> > I do not think it has got to a stage yet where it is intuitive enough to
> > say if header Gllug-mail-list is present use
> > xander-no-flame-please at harkness.co.uk etc. :-)
> 
> oh well, maybe it'll be done in a future release.  lets hope it gets
> done in a sensible way.
> 
> -vince
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