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George Lindholm would like the ability to set the Reply-To mail header. Paul Gazda is interested in the multiple account aspect since "we have a request to have different From addresses and signatures depending on which account a user is logged into." I, ~amos AmosG, am interested in something similar, using the terminology "roles" or "identities". Since we use a Cyrus server with a lot of shared folders, I'm thinking it'd be rather handy to be able to "tie" such a role to a folder, making that role the default when in that folder.
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Column | Description |
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USER_ID | Obvious what this is for.... |
FULL_NAME | In an address like "Amos Gouaux" <amos@utdallas.edu>, this field would be what's in between the double quotes above. |
FROM_ADDR | In the same example address above, this would be the portion in between the angle brackets. This could vary to something else, like <jasig-portal@utdallas.edu>. This would be used to set both the From: message header and the envelope sender (the real sender of the message.) |
EMAIL_ADDR | This would be USER_ID + @ + CURRENT_IMAP_SERVER. Perhaps the name of this field is too vague, but it represents the user's account. So for all my identities, for me this would always be <amos@inbox.utdallas.edu>. When FROM_ADDR was set to something other than <amos@DEFAULT_DOMAIN>, then this value should be used to set a X-Sender message header that would be added to the message. |
REPLY_TO | This would be used to add a Reply-To message header, if it is defined. |
SIGNATURE | This message signature we'd like associated with this identity. |
ASSOC_FOLDER | This would probably be of more benefit to environments with shared IMAP folders, but generally would be null. The idea is this: if this value is set, it would be set to the shared folder. Consequently, when this shared folder was open, this particular account would show up as the default in a pick list that appears where the sender's name is currently displayed when composing a message. Typically the default for this pick list would be the user's primary account (maybe we need a flag for that?), but when we were in this folder, this account would instead be the default. |
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