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

[Sudhakar Govindavajhala <sudhakar cs princeton edu>]

thanks Lonnie, Christopher, Simran and Not Zed  for replies.

Lonnie:
> From my experience, human intervention will not slow the dy/dx of spam.
>
> That being said I think it is impossible for a legitimate message to be
> sent without a "FROM:" header as the SMTP server asks for it before the
> DATA transaction begins.

I will have a from header, but finally I will just forge the header to
have something else.

> Sudhakar, I have tried to offer you some ideas, but you seem to have
all
> the answers.  I wonder why you are even posting to a mailing list in the
> first place.

Yes, I did some homework a bit before posting. But then, I wanted to take advantage of more knowledgeable 
people there too. :-)


Simran,  that filter idea was a good one. I did not now about filters
earlier.  I think for it to work, I need to somehow send the mail to
SMTP directly (by running an SMTP server)  from my script.  But then,
evolution tries to send the mail too and I would not want to send the
mail twice.  I need to think more about this to prevent evolution from
sending the mail.

Not Zed,


> You should just write a script to make and send the mail directly, not
> use a client.
Hmm, I want  to use evolution for its GUI.  Yes, sending the mail directly by
using the filter is a good idea. But then I need to prevent evolution from actually delivering the mail too.
I would not want to send ppl two copies.
> 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!

Well, sometimes I send some mails to mailing lists and they actually end up being archived 
on the web. Thus my email address is exposed for spam harvesting. Thus I am thinking that I should rewrite
the from header also when I send the mails so that I avoid exposing my email address to bots.


So the problem now is how to prevent evolution from actually delivering
the mail.  Ideas?

thanks all for the efforts!

Sudhakar.

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 21:28, Not Zed wrote:
> 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!
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