Sending from multiple accounts

Sending from multiple accounts

[Doug Penner]

I am in the process of trying to migrate from alpine (which handles 
separate accounts *very* distinctly) to notmuch (which combines them). I 
have no problem with incoming e-mails being combined (actually looking 
forward to it) but am having a little trouble configuring outgoing e-mails 
to work correctly.

I am currently using the vim interface (never like emacs, sorry) and have 
noticed that when replying, notmuch correctly uses the appropriate e-mail 
address (as defined in the To: or Cc: fields of the original), but does 
not have the ability to change the sender's "name".

Ex: My "name" for my gmail account is "Doug Penner" (as you probably 
noticed with this on), but I also manage some other accounts where I do 
not go by this name. I manage a local organization's e-mail and need my 
sending name to be non-personal (ex: "This organization's Webmaster"). I 
can manually change the name before sending, but this gets very 
repetitive and annoying.


Is there any way to add names to the "alternate e-mails" setting in the 
.notmuch-config file? I've tried switching to the standard "My Name" 
<e-mail> and it then completely fails to even detect that e-mail address 
as mine.

One other thing, I didn't see any keybindings in the vim interface for 
"forwarding" an e-mail.


~Doug

Re: Sending from multiple accounts

[Michal Sojka]

Hi Doug,

Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor@gmail.com> writes:
> I am in the process of trying to migrate from alpine (which handles 
> separate accounts *very* distinctly) to notmuch (which combines them). I 
> have no problem with incoming e-mails being combined (actually looking 
> forward to it) but am having a little trouble configuring outgoing e-mails 
> to work correctly.
>
> I am currently using the vim interface (never like emacs, sorry) and have 
> noticed that when replying, notmuch correctly uses the appropriate e-mail 
> address (as defined in the To: or Cc: fields of the original), but does 
> not have the ability to change the sender's "name".
>
> Ex: My "name" for my gmail account is "Doug Penner" (as you probably 
> noticed with this on), but I also manage some other accounts where I do 
> not go by this name. I manage a local organization's e-mail and need my 
> sending name to be non-personal (ex: "This organization's Webmaster"). I 
> can manually change the name before sending, but this gets very 
> repetitive and annoying.
>
>
> Is there any way to add names to the "alternate e-mails" setting in the 
> .notmuch-config file? 

I don't think so. I use some elisp hooks within emacs interface for
similar functionality but this wouldn't help in your case.

> I've tried switching to the standard "My Name" <e-mail> and it then
> completely fails to even detect that e-mail address as mine.

This should not be too hard to implement. There are gmime functions for
email address manipulations which can be used to parse email addresses
from .notmuch-config and to separate names from addresses.

Regards,
-Michal

Re: Sending from multiple accounts

[Patrick Totzke]

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try alot: multiple accounts [0] for free </spam>
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[0] http://alot.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration/index.html#accounts

Quoting Michal Sojka (2012-05-23 11:29:27)
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor@gmail.com> writes:
> > I am in the process of trying to migrate from alpine (which handles 
> > separate accounts *very* distinctly) to notmuch (which combines them). I 
> > have no problem with incoming e-mails being combined (actually looking 
> > forward to it) but am having a little trouble configuring outgoing e-mails 
> > to work correctly.
> >
> > I am currently using the vim interface (never like emacs, sorry) and have 
> > noticed that when replying, notmuch correctly uses the appropriate e-mail 
> > address (as defined in the To: or Cc: fields of the original), but does 
> > not have the ability to change the sender's "name".
> >
> > Ex: My "name" for my gmail account is "Doug Penner" (as you probably 
> > noticed with this on), but I also manage some other accounts where I do 
> > not go by this name. I manage a local organization's e-mail and need my 
> > sending name to be non-personal (ex: "This organization's Webmaster"). I 
> > can manually change the name before sending, but this gets very 
> > repetitive and annoying.
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to add names to the "alternate e-mails" setting in the 
> > .notmuch-config file? 
> 
> I don't think so. I use some elisp hooks within emacs interface for
> similar functionality but this wouldn't help in your case.
> 
> > I've tried switching to the standard "My Name" <e-mail> and it then
> > completely fails to even detect that e-mail address as mine.
> 
> This should not be too hard to implement. There are gmime functions for
> email address manipulations which can be used to parse email addresses
> from .notmuch-config and to separate names from addresses.
> 
> Regards,
> -Michal
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