Identities/Aliases

Topha

What a pleasant surprise, "M3" has arrived

Thanks a lot for that.

I almost feel ashamed starting to post feature requests so soon after release...But anyway:

I have an e-mail provider that allows having multiple identities/aliases under the same account, i.e. main-address @ provider(.)com, alias1 @ provider(.) com etc., all using the same login data.

It would be a nice addition to the Vivaldi mail client to support this.

dirvo

I'd love to see this, too. Allowing for multiple identities with one account enables the following scenarios:

Replying to messages forwarded/collected from another account using the original identity. For example, all messages from [email protected] get automatically forwarded to [email protected] (which is the account configured in Mail). When replying to such a message, the reply could automatically use the identity for [email protected] (giving this identity is configured).
Using unique mail address for registrations. I have a domain where the provider allows sending/receiving messages for any addresses of that domain (incoming mail is collected in a fetch all mailbox). That means I am able to use unique addresses when signing up for services (which is an excellent phishing protection). With unique addresses I also want to be able to use this unique address when communicating with the service, but still only have one mailbox

Holly

this is very similar to allow-editing-of-sender-address-when-composing - both attempt to solve the same issue.
a freely editable from field when composing an email would provide the most flexibility,
however I do like the idea of being able to permanently add alias email-addresses to email accounts, too.

petersaints

I'd also love to have this feature. My Gmail account has multiple e-mail addresses associated to it (not only Gmail accounts but other domains). So it would be nice to be able to associate them to the account that I added do Vivaldi so that I can send e-mails from any of those addresses.

Please, keep up the good work and make it happen.

gmg

@Topha @dirvo @Holly @petersaints @fbochatay

Forgot to post here, but alias support is out with the last release (version 5.1 on February 9, 2022).

See:
[Mail Beta] Alias mail addresses for a mail account: supports aliases with same SMTP server (VB-12785)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-1-gets-scrollable-tabs-reading-list/

P.s. Still have to do separate smtp servers for aliases, but that can be a separate request

Holly

@gmg thank you, I very much like the implementation. Great work!

Topha

Wonderful.

A Big Thank You @ the whole Team for the Vivaldi Browser

Hallker

@gmg Loving the Alias feature, only little update I would do is to allow for multiple Aliases from the same mail address, so people could set up signatures and stuff for personal vs. official mails and also for multi lingual mails.
I use the same email address for many things and sometimes I need signature in Czech, sometimes in English, sometimes for my friends sometimes for official business.

So being able to use the same sender mail but different signatures would be awesome! Which doesn't work at the moment, it allows to add the same mail and sender name is correctly displayed in the drop down but signature doesn't update.

gmg

@hallker
How would you know the difference though in the dropdown?
We'd have to change that somehow to show that the reason it appears twice is the same signature (and update the signature accordingly)
Have you made a bug for this?

Hallker

@gmg I guess that Sender name isn't viable as it isn't just a internal label but also identifier for mail clients what name to display right? Maybe adding a label?

But I haven't created a bug for it, should I?

gmg

@hallker
Sure we can talk about it in the bug.
Currently since we only allow the same email once the dropdown just has emails

So you'd just see
Bob ([email protected])
Bob ([email protected])
Bob ([email protected])

If we'd offer to make the same email as an alias the different names are easy since we already display them in the list
To allow different signatures we'd have to have something like

Bob ([email protected]) (signature #1)
Bob ([email protected]) (signature #2)
Bob ([email protected]) (signature #3)

In which case you'd need to remember which was which I'd guess.
You should make a bug and put this in as a new feature request

Hallker

@gmg Done. Bug created under VB-88769 and new feature request created here, both created independent of each other. Thanks for the assistance.