Sender Identities

The settings here control the name(s) and email address(es) stated as sender when you send out email messages. Depending on the server configuration, you can define multiple sender identities or only adjust the name and other control fields.

Settings

This first block contains general properties of the selected sender identity:

Display name

The full name displayed in the recipient’s email program when you send out a message

Email

The email address stated as sender of email messages you send with this identity. Please enter a valid email address that is handled by your Roundcube email account. Otherwise message sending might fail because of an invalid sender address.

Note

The Email field might not be visible or editable. This is no malfunction but a restriction set by the server administrator to prevent users from sending email with faked sender addresses.

Organization

Some email programs do display the organization field when receiving messages from you with this filled out.

Reply-to

Enter an email address that differs from the identity’s Email address here in order to force recipients to send answers to that address instead of the sender email address.

Bcc

Specify an email address here that will receive blind copies of every message you send with this identity.

Set default

Check this box to make the current identity the default selection when writing new messages. You can still chose another sender identity while composing a message, though.

Signature

Every sender identity can have its own signature text which will be apened to the message text when you start writing a new email message. Visit Settings > Preferences > Composing Messages to configure when and how signatures are inserted.

Signature

Enter the actual signature text here.

HTML signature

Check this option if you mainly send formatted (HTML) messages and to enable formatting of your signature. The text box above will then show a toolbar to adjust formatting.

Managing Multiple Sender Identities

Unless restricted by the server administrator, the identities list has control buttons for adding and deleting sender identities. If present, click the + icon in the identities list footer to create a new identity. Fill out the form and click Save to create it. The new identity is now added to the list and can be edited or deleted from there.

The Delete button also located in the identities list footer will delete the currently selected identity after displaying a confirmation dialog.