Description of problem: It appears to be the case that, if you have multiple accounts in Evo, and disable one, it's still an option for sending mail. And, if it was your default account, it's what you default to sending mail as. But the mail won't go anywhere, because it's disabled. It also appears to be the case that it will force the first account in the list to be the default one, even if that one is disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.0.2-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up multiple accounts. The first will be selected as your default, if you don't pick one (which is annoying; it should ask!) 2. Disable the account which is currently selected as your default. 3. Try to send mail. Actual results: The disabled, default account will be the one you are going to try to send mail as, unless you select another one. It won't work. Expected results: If you disable an account, it should not be possible to send mail as it. Additionally, if you disable an account which is your default, it should ask you which account should be your default (since it seems to require there to be one). Similarly when you create a bunch of account, but haven't selected any as the default, it should ask which one you want as default. Additional info:
Ah, no. If you disable an account and use it to send mail, it _will_ still try (I got bounce messages just now). I still contend that it shouldn't let you try to send mail as a disabled account, however.
I agree with your opinion in comment 1 There's been some recent debate about this upstream; some people were arguing there that disabling should only apply to receiving IIRC. The "Working with Mail Accounts" section of the help has the text "Evolution allows you to maintain multiple accounts, or identities. When you are writing an e-mail message, you can which account to use by selecting from the drop-down list next to the From field in the message composer. Click Send/Receive to select all mail sources that are not disabled. If you don't want to check mail for a given account, select the account in the Mail Accounts tab and click the Disable button." this suggests that the current behaviour is as designed (although I agree that it's unintuitive) Reproduced on i386 (vmware) with evolution-2.0.2-22
Evolution 2.0.2 is only being updated for security issues. Closing as WONTFIX.