Re: [Evolution] per-message From: header

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>:
> I like to give a different email address to everybody who asks so that
> it's easy to blacklist the ones that attract spam.  For example:
> hertz mydomain com
> jetblue mydomain com
> hyatt mydomain com
> etc.
> Is there a way to get Evolution to send mail with a custom From: header

No clue, probably not.

This is a bad idea, and it will not accomplish your goal.

All this does is defeat the purpose of e-mail, which is communication.  
 You are just making yourself more difficult to communicate with, and  
accomplishing nearly nothing.

> that could be specified independently for each message, e.g.
> Carl Schaefer <hertz mydomain com>
> without defining a separate account in Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts
> for each such From: address?  That approach works, but it doesn't scale
> to the number of addresses I have.
> My other mail client (emacs) makes this very easy, since I can edit the
> headers as plain text, just like the body.