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

[Brad Warkentin <brad warkentin rogers com>]

Jason A Miller wrote:

> My apologies. I didn't mean to sound quite that confrontational there.
> What I was merely trying to point out is that, if there were a way to
> simply click a text dialog and type in a From: address, it would be very
> easy to make one's self look like anybody (president whitehouse gov,
> billg microsoft com, etc.).

Which, as others have pointed out is _trivial_ to do. Unless your mail
server has implemented extra rules defining/verifying/controlling email
address (ie lots of sites will not send mail with tweaked headers that
are not valid user email addresses), you can hack them to your hearts
content. As long as they are syntactically valid the mailer will happily
send them. The only issue is how easy is it to do so inside of
Evolution.

For the different address for different lists problem the easy to
implement but annoying to use approach is to define a bunch of addresses
and manually change the from line, the harder to implement but easy to
use way would be to write a header tweaker. I would configure it to send
my mail through a Perl filter that tweaks based on destination for the
mailing list problem (but I tend to see Perl as my hammer for most
problems... :-)

cheers,
brad

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Brad Warkentin <brad warkentin rogers com>