Just added a smart-reply feature (see Options dialog). Might be released in the next days.

• Description of smart-reply
• Preview download
• Problems
• Thanks

Description of 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...

Preview download

Download Virtual Identity Preview(v.0.2.5_pre4) If you use this version, expect bugs (ok, the main code has not changed) and please report what you think about it.

Problems

There are still some problems:

• Its working on windows only for the first time you try to reply to any mail, the second time it wont work. (help for reasons welcome)
  If you restart Thunderbird, you have another single try ;(

Thanks

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