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

[simran <simran list reflectit com>]

Hi Sudhakar, 

I haven't tried this myself but in theory you should be able to:

* Create an outgoing filter (Tools => Filters => Outgoing)

* Write yourself a little perl script (or the likes) and in the filter
  "pipe your message to your script".

  * Your script can easily change the From header, but i believe it will
    also need to do the mail send (i don't think Evo will read the 
    message from the script again and then send, although i'm not
    sure).

To create such a perl script is fairly simple, and you can do funky
things like:

* extract the first word of the subject line, remove it from the subject
  like and insert it as part of the from address

or something like:
(which is what i would do)

* Get the "To" address, extract the email/domain, parse it and say you
were sending an email to me (simran reflectit com), i would transform 
the email to something like: reflectit.com-simran and then change
the from header to something like:
        From: sudhakar+reflectit com-simran reflectit com

hope that helps, 

cheers, 

simran.


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:43, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote:
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > From: Christopher Ness <nesscg mcmaster ca>
> > To: Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>
> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Setting the "from address" in evolution?
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:16:41 -0500
> >
> > 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.
>
> > Now set the reply to field to whatever you'd like.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to do this automagically, maybe a script or something
> > to pop a new compose window from the command line with that info filled
> > in would be nice.  But it's still typing.  :)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 02:34, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 23:43 -0500, sudhakar CS Princeton EDU wrote:
> > > > Now, **each** time I send a mail I would like to be able to change the
> > > > > From field accordingly.  Is there a way I can do it in evolution?
> > > > Obviously doing this in settings is not an option. (It is a pain to do it.
> > > > But for research, it is worth the pain.)
> > >
> > > Tools->Accounts->New
> > >
> > > Create an account with the email address you want, set the SMTP but
> > > leave the incoming server info blank.  When you are composing an email,
> > > use the From: drop-down to select the email address you want this
> > > particular email to be from.
> > >
> > > Lonnie
> > >
> > >
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