Re: [sup-talk] [PATCH] Fix problem with account selector

From: Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] [PATCH] Fix problem with account selector
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:22:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366193674-sup-848@x200s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366034093-sup-2478@x200s>

I should probably explain the rationale behind this patch.

For a couple of years I used a single instance of sup to handle email
for two different accounts: one for personal email, and the other for
work email.  When I sent a message to somebody at work, I wanted the
From: address to be set automatically to my work email address.
Otherwise I wanted the From: address to be set to my personal email
address.  To do this I wrote a before-edit hook that looked like this
(with my company name changed to "widgets"):

  unless header["In-reply-to"]
    if header["To"] =~ /widgets/
      to = header["To"]
      info "Sending as widgets, to = #{to}"
      header["From"] = "Mark Alexander <marka@widgets.com>"
    else
      to = header["To"]
      info "Sending as pobox, to = #{to}"
      header["From"] = "Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>"
    end
  end

But the hook didn't work; the account selector was changing the From:
address back to marka@pobox.com even after the hook had set it to
marka@widgets.com.  The fix was to run the hook before the account
selector was initialized.
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