David's Computer Stuff Journal

Gmail: Associate Addresses to Interlocutors

Posted by David N. Welton Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:21:00 GMT

I have a number of different email addresses that all wind up in my gmail account. Some of them are personal, some business. Gmail is smart enough to use a particular email address in your reply when someone writes to you with it, but it would be nice if it went a step further and looked at what address you normally use with a given person, and defaulted to that, so that whenever I write person A, it uses the business address, and switches to the personal address when I write new emails to person B.

I guess that's one of the problems with relying on software you don't have the source code to.

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  1. Mauro
    about 1 hour later:

    "I guess that's one of the problems with relying on software you don't have the source code to."

    You said it :-)

    On mutt you can do that by setting 'send-hook's. But, I suppouse that you're using the web interface of gmail, so moving to mutt is not an option :-P

  2. dave
    about 13 hours later:

    Sounds like something that could be done easily with a greasemonkey script.

    However, I can't see one from a quick browse here: http://userscripts.org/tags/gmail

  3. David Welton
    about 15 hours later:

    Yeah... mutt's nice. My own mail client transition went something like this, over the course of 15 years:

    pine->mutt->gnus->thunderbird->gmail

    I ended up with gmail because it has pretty good anti-spam features, and is accessible from anywhere. The local anti-spam stuff that I was using just wasn't cutting it anymore, and was using up a fair amount of server resources.