roundcube/roundcubemail

Associate identities with additional email addresses

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#9,669 opened on Oct 9, 2024

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Description

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Proposal

Use case:

My mailbox has two aliases:

john.doe@my-company.com office@my-company.com

I want my identity for john.doe@my-company.com to be automatically selected when I reply to an email sent to office@my-company.com.

My old email server (Zimbra) allowed me to specify additional email addresses for which an identity should be used.

Motivation and context

Whenever I need to reply to an email sent to my office address, I have to manually select the john.doe@my-company.com identity. This is easy to forget, in which case I would accidentally reply to a business request with my non-business personal email address.

I also don't want to create an extra identity for office@my-company.com.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Add a new database table or field to store additional email addresses per identity, then modify identity selection logic to match incoming email's To address against these additional addresses. Update UI to allow user to add/remove associated addresses.
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
PHPDatabase (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40