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V i r t u a l I d e n t i t y

Usage

To use Virtual Identity, press the small button between the "From" label and the Account-Dropdown-Menu in your MessageCompose Dialog. Once you press this button, a new Virtual Identity Account is created (at this moment the account information is internally stored and still not accessible from the Account Manager).

You are now able to change the FullName, Email Address and/or the SMTP-Server settings with the appropriate fields. If you press the button again, the editable fields will be hidden. But in distinction to earlier versions the Virtual Identity is now not yet removed. You will see, that your active Account is now the Virtual Identity one (with a number for any Virtual Identity you are currently using - maybe you are editing more than one mail the same time).

To remove the temporary Virtual Identity Account without sending the message you have to choose one of your permanent identities in the Dropdown-List while editable fields are hidden (the last entry in the list is your Virtual Identity one). Just added a smart-reply feature (see Options dialog). Might be released in the next days.

Smart-Reply

(as I wrote it in a mail ;)

The idea is to reply with any address, depending on the recipients (or ccList) of the mail you are replying. An easy way to test this is to reply to a mail you send to 'anybody else' (choose one from the sent folder). The recipient is 'anybody else' and his address is in none of your identities, so virtual identity creates a special one. If I am replying to the last mail I sent to you (you are the recipient) the messagecompose-dialog is started with virtual-identity enabled and in this case your address is used as my virtual sender. (my mail-server wont accept this, but thats another problem)

What is it good for? You could now (if you have an own mailserver) forward any unused address to you account and use a single, special address for every mail you write. Any answer is than forwarded to your homeaccount. Replying to any answer is done by smart-reply - also not a problem. And if you dont like this single address (maybe too much spam) any more you could drop it on your mailserver...

Thanks

The idea behind smart-reply was initiated by Yves, thanks a lot.

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Created by: rene last modification: Friday 11 of November, 2005 [20:40:36 UTC] by Anonymous


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Re: Occasioally Crashes Thunderbird 1.5.0.4
on: Tue 06 of Jun, 2006 [19:24 UTC] score: 0.57 Vote: 1 2 3 4 5

Hi,

> It looks like this extension causes occasional craches in 1.5.0.4.

Just upgrading and I'll see if this works for me

> First obvious issue is (exactly as the last guy said) that when I click the + box, it doesn't show the set of boxes as seen in the screenshots. There's no Full Name, Email Address or SMTP field. It looks like the drop down list is just replaced with a single text box which spans the width of the drop down list.

This is a (not so) new feature, cause people didnt liked the place of all the different fields. You can reactivate the old look in the preferences dialog.

> If I type in a "virtual address" into that text box, and then click send (to myself), it looks like it's sending, but then Thunderbird sometimes crasbhes. When I reopen Thunderbird I receive the email with the right "virtual address" as I had typed it. The virtual address also doesn't appear in the From drop down list afterwards.

So this is (except the crash) also how it should work. Virtual Identities only stored in the drop down list while using them, if you change to another Identity (pre-stored) or if you sended the message, the temporary created Identity is gone. Maybe there is something broken in removing the Identity, but thats the last thing the Extension does. If this is working ok, the crashes are only difficult to trace and maybe not really related to the extension. (but I'm not sure)

> The reason I want to use this thing is that I have an email forwarding address, but I'd like to "send" email from that address, but because it's just a forwarding address, there's no POP server to put into an actual account. If anyone knows of another way than using this extension to do this, please post.

If you like to use a special Identity every time again, it's much better tu use the Identity-feature of thunderbird. You can find this in the account-dialog, if you select the accout-name and you see on the right side the 'account settings' tab, there is at the bottom a button 'manage Identitys'.

regards,

Rene




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