roundcube/roundcubemail

Associate identities with additional email addresses

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#9,669 opened on Oct 9, 2024

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Description

Prerequisites

  • I have searched for duplicate or closed feature requests
  • I have searched for plugins that provide already provide the feature

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

Tech stack
None
Domain
full stack
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.
3-5 days
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of Roundcube identity systemPHP web development
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40
Research direction
Examine the identity selection logic in programs/steps/mail/func.inc, specifically the rcmail identity select() function. Understand how the current identity is matched to the sender of the incoming email. Then propose a new configuration option or database field to store additional email addresses per identity, and modify identity selection to check those aliases. Review existing plugin hooks for identity assignment to ensure extensibility.