[MlMt] default account derived from context is not behaving?

[Randall Gellens]

On 15 Jul 2020, at 21:27, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> On 14 Jul 2020, at 10:27, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Bringing up this old issue, as I just almost did something rather 
>> embarrassing due to this "derived from context" setting not working 
>> as I expect.  Comments inline.
>>
>> On 11 Dec 2018, at 5:58, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 Dec 2018, at 20:49, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, if I click on an external mailto: link to compose a new message 
>>>> in MM, the chosen From address is not right (or not what I think it 
>>>> should be).
>>>>
>>>> For example, I'm clicking on a link to send an email to 
>>>> paul.xxx at companyZ.com.  One of my accounts is also with 
>>>> companyZ.com, but the chosen From address is not from that account, 
>>>> but from my comcast account.
>>>
>>> Deriving from context has some issues (or lacks a sufficient level 
>>> of flexibility in its settings), but it's not really supposed to 
>>> handle a case like this.
>>
>> In that case, can you please explain exactly what "derived from 
>> context" actually does?  In my scenario above, there is no context in 
>> the message that would lead MM to choose my comcast account as the 
>> From address.  In fact, there's no context at all, except that 
>> mailto: URL I clicked.
>
> Oddly, today this problem no longer reproduces for me.  I'm running 
> the same version of MM (r5698) as yesterday.  I click the same mailto: 
> link (from the Slack App in case it matters) I did yesterday, and 
> today a compose window opens with the expected "companyZ.com" From: 
> address selected.

When you previously clicked the link and sent mail, did you modify the 
from address and/or account?  I've noticed that after sending a few 
messages to a certain address and editing my from address, that MM 
starts automatically changing the from address of a new blank message 
after I set the to address to that certain one.

--Randall