On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:01 +0000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 19:43 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:Hey all, How do I enter arbitrary addresses for the "From" address? Now, before anybody asks "why in the world would you want to do something weird like that" let me explain... I occasionally have need to take advantage of "+" extensions for special purposes. So, I'll send out a message with mhw+foo wittsend com as the From address. Anything of the form "foo+bar" coming back into sendmail (or postfix) will go to foo if foo+bar does not exist. Procmail and other processors can then separate out mail based on extensions and I detect abuse of certain accounts I'm dealing with that way. Even QMail supports something similar, but they use a different separator character. In the past, I've always resorted to another mailer to do this (good old Mutt more often than not). This last time got me thinking, "why can't evolution do this?" Anyone got any thoughts other than (gag) setting up dummy accounts for every address extension I want to use?I would love to see this feature too... it is just too annoying having to go through a list of 100 dummy accounts and choosing the right one... Why not have it the same way as the To, Cc and Bcc buttons/input fields?
I can understand defaulting to a limited set of accounts but then the
pull down needs a couple of entries for "Use Reply-To" and "Other" (if
you want different From and Reply-To). The first one would be
relatively simple to implement. The later would require another entry
box (maybe replacing the pulldown).
Soeren
Mike
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