[Ilohamail-devel] multiple identities

[Ryo C. <ry...@il...>]

I'm moving a discussion that started on the forum to the mailing list.  If
you're interested in the whole story, see:

http://ilohamail.org/forum/view_thread.php?topic_id=5&id=1066

>Does it seem to be a much work?

No, it should be relatively straight forward.  The way I see it, there are
two ways to implement this feature:

1) Simply add another text field to the compose window
2) Allow users to enter multiple name-email pairs (or "identities") and
display them in a drop down menu.

Personally, I prefer the second option.  If we're going to do it, we might
as well do it right.  The second option could be a little more involved
since I would want it to support both the file-based backend as well as
any database backend (see how preferences and contacts are handled). 
Right now, the whole back-end code is kind of convoluted, but I'm thinking
simplifying the whole process at some point as well.

The only other requirement I have is that it should be admin configurable.
 The admin should have the options of:

1) Not allow users to specify multiple identities
2) Allow for Reply-To field only
3) Allow for From field

This will kind of be an extension of the $TRUST_USER_ADDRESS directive.

I might work on it sometime, but I thought I'd throw out my specs in case
someone else wanted to give it a shot.

Ryo