Re: [Evolution] Setting the "from address" in evolution?

[Sudhakar Govindavajhala <sudhakar cs princeton edu>]

Yupp, Jamie  you got the point.


I want to see how the spammers have got hold my email address. And if I
am getting spam on say sudhakar+evolution@, then I just define this as a
spam address in my procmail and prevent mail from this address
cluttering my mbox. I will subscribe to the list with a new address.


And in general, I want to have an idea for myself how spammers are
getting hold of my email.  May be that info is useful for me an year
from me now when I think of some spam related research.  


Sudhakar.



On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 07:53, Jamie L. Penman-Smithson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 08:08, Not Zed wrote:
> > Uh, so you want to send real mail, but with forged headers with a fake
> > from address?
> >
> > Just set the from address in your account/make up a new one, that goes
> > nowhere.  The net result will be the same, a mail that people wont be
> > able to reply to.
> >
> > I can see that going down 'well' on public lists.
>
> You're missing the point *entirely*.
>
> The idea is not to fake headers, the idea is being able to use a
> different address for each mailing list, etc. I subscribe to several,
> and I use a different address for each. If I get spam to one of them I
> know where they got my address from, and I can easily bounce messages to
> that address.
>
> On most MUA's you can set your From address to whatever you like, you
> can configure it when you create an account, so why shouldn't you be
> able to configure it on-the-go when composing a message?
>
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