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Welpy-cw / Folder-Account

A Thunderbird extension to make managing multiple return addresses easier
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Feature Request: Archive folder handling #11

Open GraemMcduff opened 2 years ago

GraemMcduff commented 2 years ago

This plugin has been very useful in helping me make sure I send using the correct email identity. One other problem I have had with managing multiple identities in Thunderbird is archiving messages.

Thunderbird allows you to set custom Sent, Drafts, Template and Archive folders for each identity. However, when using the Archive button, it only moves a message to the Archive folder for that identity if the exact email address for the identity is in the To field. I often receive emails where the my address isn't in the To field. This can happen if a message was sent to a mailing list I am part of. I also frequently use address tagging (i.e. I give automated systems an address like user+tag@domain.tld. I can put anything I want for the tag portion and messages sent to that address will be delivered to user@domain.tld). In these cases the archive button just moves messages to the archive folder of my default identity.

I realize this is a very different type of function than setting the from address when I compose a message, but if I could have messages archived based on the identity that I set for the Folder Account, it would make things much easier for me.

Welpy-cw commented 2 years ago

@GraemMcduff Thank you for your great suggestion. I implemented the functionality and tested it in TB 102 Beta as well as TB 91. There is a pre-release version available. Please test carefully after making a backup of your TB profile, just to be sure. I noticed one minor side-effect: the "Reply-All" button is sometimes displayed when it should not be.

GraemMcduff commented 2 years ago

Did some initial testing in 91.10.0 and 102.0b7 and it's working flawlessly so far. Thanks for the quick turnaround on this.

Welpy-cw commented 2 years ago

@GraemMcduff I just published an 2nd pre-release version which doesn't change the archiving function by default but adds an option to active it. Please test under TB102 and report any issues. Thank you!

GraemMcduff commented 2 years ago

I missed pre-release 2 but just installed pre-release 3 on 102 and it seems to work fine. I'll let you ,now if I have any problems.

Welpy-cw commented 1 month ago

Except for the migration of existing folder settings, the new version 12 of Folder Account now uses only WebExtension technology. Unfortunately, it has not yet been possible to implement the message archiving functionality in this way. As a workaround for ESR 128, please install version 11.3.2 from this website and disable automatic updates for this add-on.

GraemMcduff commented 1 month ago

Just want to say thanks for your attention to this feature. I still use it heavily and really appreciate it. I've gone ahead and downgraded to 11.3.2. Hopefully we can get it to work in a future update.