Re: [Evolution] Replies kept under op

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 16:16 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:52 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > What I tend to dislike about Kmail are trivia such as the user
> > > interface
> > > (it seems fussier than Evo for some reason) plus the IMAP support
> > has
> > > in
> > > the past not been so good, though that may have changed.
> >
> > I have two main accounts in Kmail, both IMAP, and one Gmail IMAP.
> > Kmail
> > handles them quite well.  I have never tried to set them up in Evo.  I
> > have a work-issued windows laptop on which I have put Thunderbird for
> > personal mail.  Kmail seems to handle Gmail IMAP better than
> > Thunderbird.  It seems to handle my other IMAP account, hosted by
> > Verizon Business (a personal account that used to be a business
> > account)
> > the same as Kmail.
>
> More to the point of the original post, I am going to assume that kmail
> handles Gmail IMAP much better than evo.  The reason is that if you move
> other accounts over to your Gmail account, Gmail automatically tags the
> mail with the name of these accounts.  If you access Gmail with IMAP,
> tags are presented as folders.  As I mentioned before, kmail allows you
> to associate folders with a particular identity, so mail to
> arthur alexion com goes to a folder with the arthur alexion com default
> identity, so if I reply to it, the reply stays in that folder and it is
> sent with the correct identity.  OTOH, as evo cannot associate folders
> with identities, I would have to remember to manually change the
> identity when replying, especially when replying to lists where
> subscription matters.

I subscribe to a couple of mailing lists via Gmail, one of them with a
lot of traffic, and use Evo to access them. When I reply to a list
message it goes out with the correct From address, simply because the
list is on Gmail. Of course if I had a mixture of identities for my
Gmail mail things would be different, but it works for me so far.

poc