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





On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 11:43, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote:
You can also do it manually (if you have an extensive list of emails) by
clicking on "view -> Reply-To Field" and putting a check in that option.


I have something like this in my mind.  The thing is that I would like
not to expose my original email address.  For this, I need to mask both
the From and reply-to address.   So, what you said only solves half the
problem. :-)

Sudhakar.

Sounds to me like you want to "munge" the headers, which is a much more
advanced idea than Evo allows.  To do this you are going to have to use
something more lower level than Evolution.  It would not be a good
practise for Evo to _easily_ send emails without a FROM header.  That
would be a sad day indeed as any John Doe could become a spammer.

You may need to write a text filter program to overwrite the "FROM:"
header with the "REPLY-TO" header and then strip out the REPLY-TO
header.  Some simple perl code should do the trick and then pipe your
message to `sendmail` for it to hit the MTA (sendmail/postfix/whatever)
to send it on it's way.

People talk about using procmail to filter INCOMING messages, I'm not
sure if it could do outgoing.

Good luck,
Chris
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