Re: [Evolution] Automatically changing "from" address depending on "to" header

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:30 +0900, Michael wrote:
> I constantly wish to respond to emails with the "From" address set to
> the same as the "To" header, where the email was received to. 
>
> For example, I might have example.org as my domain. I have set-up
> evolution to have the main account as <michael example org>. However, I
> have a catch-all set up on the example.org domain, so that all emails
> are sent to <michael example org>. This means I can give a different
> email address to every person/organisation, who I want to be able to
> distinguish. 
>
> The government might get <ineednogov example org>, and that dodgy spam
> company might get <buggeroff example org>, and the hotel I stayed at for
> one night that insisted I had an email address when I booked online, and
> that I will never stay at again, might get <hotelcal example org>. 
>
> The advantage of the catch-all is that I can make up an address on the
> spot, and I don't have to register it anywhere. 
>
> The trouble is, that sometimes I want to respond to these emails, but
> without using my main account. ATM I've got a send only account that I
> change the email address of every time I want to send an email. I don't
> want to have to set up an account for every possible email (because by
> this stage I've probably got over 100). 
>
> What I would really like is a way for Evolution to check the "To"
> address when I hit reply on an email, and auto-insert that into the
> "From" field (or at least have it as an option). 
>
> Does anyone have any idea of how I might accomplish this? 

I guess you could in theory do it with an output filter. Alternatively,
you could set up a local MTA to do the conversion for you. Either way,
it sounds like quite a bit of work

poc