[MlMt] mailmate randomly changes the sender address

[David Levy]

Hi Tom

So far as I know, there is no way to disable this feature.  There is 
almost certainly a way to reset your past usage history.  Benny (the 
author) will know.

I have not encountered any behaviour like you describe.  There is 
nothing random about the behaviour for me.  I have five accounts and 
several of those have aliases, so I could send from any of about 10 
addresses.

When I create a message, the sending ID is initially set to the account 
currently selected in the message viewer, e.g. if a message in account A 
is selected, then the ID of my new message is set to A.

The first address I type determines my sending ID after that, so if I 
type in an address I have most recently sent to using account B, my 
sending ID is changed to B.  Subsequent addresses do not change this, 
unless I delete the first and type a new one.

So far, nothing random.

If I now wish to send to this person that I most recently wrote to from 
account B, using account C, I can do that by selecting from the the 
pop-up at the top of the composer window (or use ctrl-cmd-i which is 
what I use to select addresses).  Then the message is sent from account 
C.  So far, not random.

I do not know why you have four accounts, but I do because two are for 
distinct jobs I do, one is my main address for most communication with 
the outside world and one is for friends and family.  I find this 
feature super useful, indeed it is one of the most winning features of 
MailMate.  95% of the time or more, I only want to email work colleagues 
from my work addresses and my friends and family from the account for 
that.  MailMate makes that happen now with almost zero intervention and 
no need to remember to check from which account I am sending.

You say that the addresses change without asking.  That is not my 
experience.  My experience is that it is deterministic along the lines 
above.  Maybe Benny can suggest a way to reset your history and that 
will help.  However, if you are fairly consistent, the patterns should 
quickly stabilise.

That said, to emphasise, if you change the sending ID in the composer 
*after* you have put in your first destination address, MailMate will 
behave just like Mail and other email apps.  It will not change the 
sending account.

David.

On 15 Apr 2013, at 0:26, Tom wrote:

> Hi David,
> I'm pasting my original message below, to keep the thread organized.
>
> I am not meddling with address patterns and the Regex feature.
> It just changes the addresses without asking.
>
> I actually don't see how this could be useful.
> I want to be the only one to choose what address a mail should be sent 
> from.
>
> Even if some day I decide to use the "personal" address to write to a 
> person who
> I've alway contacted using the "work" address, I should be free to do 
> so.
> No automatic address switching.
>
> Is there any way to disable it?
>
> Thank you for your feedback,
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 14/apr/2013, 08:27, David Levy <entropydave at mac.com>:
>
>> On 13 Apr 2013, at 19:15, Alberto Caporro wrote:
>>
>>> in my experience MM change the "From" address when you add a 
>>> recipient;
>>> depending on your previous usage pattern it decides which address to 
>>> use.
>>>
>>> I've still not been able to get a reasonable behaviour for this 
>>> function;
>>> no matter whatever I've tried, wrong address still are selected for
>>> outgoing emails.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, it seems to interact in a very nasty way with the 
>>> "Address
>>> pattern" feature, if activated; I'm going to submit a bug report to 
>>> Benny
>>> as soon as I find a few minutes to collect the relevant screenshots.
>
>>
>> I am surprised to hear you say this.  In my experience this 
>> functionality, which I believe is unique to MailMate, works 
>> exceptionally well for me.  I have avoided having to change my 
>> sending identity hundreds, maybe thousands of times, because of this. 
>>  It has also saved me from sending from the wrong address many, many 
>> times.  I wonder in what way it is producing the wrong results?
>>
>> Perhaps you have unusual addressing patterns, which is why I ask.  
>> Maybe you're doing something I should be doing.
>>
>> I am not familiar, I think, with the "address pattern" feature, so 
>> cannot comment.
>>
>> David.
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>
> Original message:
>
> Hi, I'm a new user.
> So far everything is great except for a no-go problem: Mailmate 
> randomly changes the sender address of my messages.
>
> I've set it up with 4 mail boxes:
> - yahoo
> - gmail
> - personal IMAP account (domain A)
> - personal IMAP account (domain B)
>
> Quite often, when I send a message using one specific address in the 
> "FROM" field (and now I triple check every time), Mailmate decides to 
> change it with another one and sends the message with from the wrong 
> mailbox.
> I've already verified that this is not a local problem (e.g. mixed 
> labels in the GUI): these "swaps" appear on the remote IMAP 
> directories as well.
>
> Is it some sort of hidden option I haven't noticed? Am I doing 
> something wrong?
> Can it be fixed?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> All the best,
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