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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 11:21 -0500, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote:
> 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.
>
> Nah.   that is not what I want.   I want to be able to use lets say 100
> different addresses. In the solution you proposed, I will have to use
> 100 different settings.  A pain. All I want is to be able to type my
> email address, the way you type a recipient address.

You should just write a script to make and send the mail directly, not
use a client.

Just copy an existing message and change the from address when you send
it.  You also need to do stuff with the smtp protocol if you want to
more accurately study how spam is more likely sent.  I'm not sure why
you want to, there's so many examples of it out there!