Contexts with multiple addresses/alternative aliases

jmde...@gmail.com

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Jan 19, 2018, 8:53:23 PM1/19/18

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Hello,

How would I go about configuring mu4e to reply with the correct email address in this scenario? I'm using Fastmail for my domain and have something like this setup:

Main account: j...@example.com
Alternate identities I can send/receive mail from: f...@jm.example.com (messages sent here go to the same inbox as j...@example.com)

If f...@jm.example.com receives an email, I can read it in mu4e because my current context just matches the Maildir, but when I go to reply, I am replying as j...@example.com and not f...@jm.example.com.

What is a good way to handle this shared-inbox, separate from-address issue? Do I need to create separate contexts for each alternate identity or is there an easier way with less duplication?

Thanks for any pointers!
Jon-Michael

Júlio Maranhão

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Jan 21, 2018, 10:38:24 PM1/21/18

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See my example at work:

a) Two accounts: one only pop (pop.com), other imap (imap.com);

b) The imap one is new and have interfaces to two networks: internet (imap.com) and internal (imap.internal). But actually there's only one imap mail box.

My wish: centralize all mails in the imap account.

My solution is below.

P.S.: I use mbsync to make a local copy of imap account and getmail to move mails from pop server to imap local copy. And remember you can change contexts any time.

Cheers.

(setq mu4e-contexts

`( ,(make-mu4e-context

:name "p pop"

:vars '( ( user-mail-address . "us...@pop.com" )

( user-full-name . "user name" )

( message-sendmail-extra-arguments . ("--account=popcom"))

( smtpmail-smtp-server . "pop.com" )

( smtpmail-smtp-service . 25 )

( smtpmail-stream-type . nil )

( mu4e-sent-folder . "" )

( mu4e-drafts-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-trash-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . (("customize or not" . ?j)

("customize or not" . ?i)

("customize or not" . ?s)

("customize or not" . ?d)

("customize or not" . ?t)))

( mu4e-compose-signature . (concat

"customize or not\n"

"customize or not\n") ) ) )

,(make-mu4e-context

:name "n imapcom"

:vars '( ( user-mail-address . "us...@imap.com" )

( user-full-name . "user name" )

( message-sendmail-extra-arguments . ("--account=imapcom"))

( smtpmail-smtp-server . "imap.com" )

( smtpmail-smtp-service . 587 )

( smtpmail-stream-type . starttls )

( mu4e-sent-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-drafts-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-trash-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . (("customize or not" . ?j)

("customize or not" . ?i)

("customize or not" . ?s)

("customize or not" . ?d)

("customize or not" . ?t)))

( mu4e-compose-signature . (concat

"customize or not"

"customize or not") ) ) )

,(make-mu4e-context

:name "i imapinternal"

:vars '( ( user-mail-address . "us...@imap.internal" )

( user-full-name . "user name" )

( message-sendmail-extra-arguments . ("--account=imapinternal"))

( smtpmail-smtp-server . "imap.internal" )

( smtpmail-smtp-service . 587 )

( smtpmail-stream-type . starttls )

( mu4e-sent-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-drafts-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-trash-folder . "customize or not" )

( mu4e-maildir-shortcuts . (("customize or not" . ?j)

("customize or not" . ?i)

("customize or not" . ?s)

("customize or not" . ?d)

("customize or not" . ?t)))

( mu4e-compose-signature . (concat

"customize or not"

"customize or not") ) ) ) ) )

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Robert Horn

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Jan 23, 2018, 10:27:17 AM1/23/18

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On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 10:38:24 PM UTC-5, Júlio Maranhão wrote:

See my example at work:

In addition or as an alternative to changing the From field, you might want to change "Rply-to", and your signature..