sorry for being so quiet, but I’m currently and also for the next weeks very busy. But keep commenting, it won’t be forgotten. Just finished a bugfix release 0.4.2.

bugfixes:

Charles (Henrik, John)
* “When I draft a new message, sometimes I get the ID associated with the last account I used, sometimes I see the ID associated with the current account, and sometimes I see the bogus account (which I should always get).” If Smart-Reply found (for instance) an existing identity, sending works ok and was not tampered by the extension. But Thunderbird doesn’t remove the window, it ‘recycles’ the window. Next time you compose a message, this one shows the same old identity but uses a different one behind the scenes. So I changed Virtual Identity to remove Window completely if message was sended, Window-Recycling is thisway disabled.

Mark:
* “No matter how many possible virtual addresses it finds in the headers, nothing shows up in the “checklist” that pops up — but they do appear in the drop-down menu.” Yes, was broken, repaired it.

Dave:
“I have several newsgroup accounts that use the same email address as my mail accounts. With default header settings, it seems that VI picks up the email account. If I add “from” to the headers for smart reply, it seems to pick up the newsgroup account instead. … Seems it should be sticking to email account identities.” right, didn’t thougt of that. Connected usage of newsgroup accounts to the switch which enables Virtual Identity for newsgroups.

new feature requests:

Mark:
* “I receive email from a mailing list [example: group@yahoogroups.com], so none of my accounts show up in the headers. It would be GREAT if there were an option for “if..then”. (If the email is to “group@yahoogroups.com” then automatically use my email address associated with that mailing list.)” Create thisone as an identity and use CorrectIdentity or an other extension to choose the right one answering to a mailing list.

John:
“In Thunderbird’s Account Settings for fu@my.domain, I have an additional identity defined, fu@other.domain. Messages sent to fu@other.domain are forwarded to fu@my.domain, so when I reply to them, I want to use fu@other.domain. SmartReply recognizes the email address and fills it in, but doesn’t fill in the name from the Account Setting to which the identity belongs (when no name was included in the message).” You can by now use a fixed name if no Name is recognized or Names are ignored (see options dialog). Maybe I’ll change this if this isn’t enough, don’t have the time by now, sorry.

John:
“When I receive messages from a certain account, I want to always reply from a different account than which the message was sent to. Is there a way to do this with SmartReply?” Use Correct Identity for this feature.

Regards,
Rene

Thanks for the suggestion. I also uninstalled v0.4.1 and installed v0.3.4 (enabled for TB2 with MR Tech Local Install) and life is good again. Hopefully Rene will be able to fix this and release a v0.4.2 sometime soon so I can have virtual IDs and smart reply.

jl

NB: When I used Virtual Identity earlier (0.3.x) I did not have this problem.

I use correct_identity and virtualID. I have correct_identity set up to set my identity to an account with a bogus SMTP server, because I want to be always forced to pick one of my several IDs. I have virtual identity set up to identify my virtIDs, but not to open a dialog or use first found address. I also have smart draft turned off. I have the SMTP selection box turned on.

When I draft a new message, sometimes I get the ID associated with the last account I used, sometimes I see the ID associated with the current account, and sometimes I see the bogus account (which I should always get). I always see in the SMTP box the SMTP server associated with the account. However, when I hit send, the message fails because it tries to send to my bogus SMTP server, which is not listed in the box. I must manually select the account in order to send, even if it is the same account that is showing. When I select the account, neither the account name nor the SMTP server change, but the send succeeds.

Something similar happens when I reply. It (the combination of correct_identity and virtualID) pick some account & SMTP server, and show that to me in the boxes, but the send attempts to use my bogus SMTP server and fails. If I am replying to someone who sent to one of my throwaway email addresses (the reason I use virtID), that address is available in the dropdown box, which is good. I select it and the send fails as above, even though the SMTP box shows a correct server. I must select the server, even if it is the same one.

My suspicion is that correct identity is coming along after virtID and reseting something inside firefox, meaning that what I see in the input boxes is not what firefox is seeing. Can’t prove it, though.

Note that if I draft a message, cancel that message, then draft a new one, that second message usually has my bogus address info in the boxes. Something is getting cleaned up when the message is canceled.

I use correct_identity only because I want the default from address to always be the bogus address so that the send will fail if I don’t set it. The behavior today is sort-of OK because the send does fail, but having it fail while seeing correct information in the boxes is strange. If virtID gave me the option of setting the default from address when drafting a new message (another sort of ‘draft’ option), then I could stop using correct_identity.

Like I said, incoherent. I hope this is useful information.

thanks for the comments and reports, I was a little busy for some days but will go through your posts soon.

Nice regards,
Rene

This happens even if I turn off smart reply for newsgroups.

Seems it should be sticking to email account identities.