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

[Eric Sharakan]

On 19 Jul 2020, at 17:28, Randall Gellens wrote:

> 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?

Yes, I had to modify the from address (which then corresponded to a 
different account) to make sure it sent from the correct one.

> 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.

Hmm, so maybe MM keeps a notion of the most recently used from address 
to use when a new blank message is created.

Still, this is not the behavior I want.  If I have an account/identity 
with the same domain part as the To: address of the new message, I want 
that identity chosen.  Every time.

-Eric

>
> --Randall
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