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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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Formatting box bug and more....
on: Wed 11 of Oct, 2006 [20:06 UTC] score: 0.54 Vote: 1 2 3 4 5

First of all... Thanks for a great extension!! I just thought I'd let you know I've used Virtual Identity 0.3.4 with Thunderbird 1.5.07 (and also the last couple of versions of VirtID) and always experienced the formatting box problem. I've also tried the bugtest.xpi and the altered version (o.2.3b) posted by someone else. The problem exists with all of them.

On the usage side... the smart reply feature isn't very friendly, display wise. The 'ask' dialog box always pops up in the same place regardless of where you move it to, which would probably be okay on a single monitor, but when you run your email program on a second monitor as I do, you don't always notice it appear on the first. Also if you cancel the email composition, the 'ask' dialog box should realise it has no point existing anymore and close. Regarding the way smart reply works, it certainly seems to do so as advertised for me, however it could use one or two more features. It would be nice if the "use smart reply" feature could be called 'use smart reply and forward". ;-) It would also be nice if on the occasion that an email is received and one of the reply options is a Thunderbird account or identity, to have Virtual ID use that account or identity itself, rather than an alias. Just seems that if the real account exists, it'd be better to use it's settings than the settings of another account while you use an alias. Similar to the way the Correct Identity extension works I guess. In fact if you could combine the two extension, it'd make a very useful one.

But none of that's life threatening, and it's still a great extension. Thanks!!




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