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

[Tony Earnshaw <tonye+2004-04-07 billy demon nl>]

søn, 28.03.2004 kl. 06.43 skrev sudhakar CS Princeton EDU:

>       I would like to see how spammers are getting hold of my email
> address. This is for my research...  Whenever I send a mail, I would like
> to use a separate from address like I did here in this mail.
> sudhakar+evolution cs princeton edu
>
> Our mail server understands that sudhakar+evolution corresponds to
> sudhakar.

My mail server, Postfix 2.0.19 snapshot, works the same (called VERP).

> 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.)

I want to be able to do the same too, but differently. I have a Postfix
cleanup header filter (thanks to Ole Tange on the Postfix list) that
filters on date: tonye+2004-03-07 billy demon nl, for example, would
allow the address up to 2004-03-07, but be invalid after that date and
the filter would return "Invalid recipient address". cron updates the
filter every day at midnight, with a perl script.

That's more a question of defeating bots than finding exactly where the
bots have harvested my address.

> In pine, I can set these options:
> customized-hdrs=Reply-To: sudhakar cs princeton edu,
>         From: sudhakar cs princeton edu
>
> When I compose the mail in pine, the composer looks like:
>
>   PINE 4.58   COMPOSE MESSAGE                     Folder: INBOX  416
> Messages  +
>
> > From    : sudhakar+evolution cs princeton edu
> Reply-To: sudhakar+evolution cs princeton edu
> To      : sudhakar+evolution cs princeton edu
> Cc      :
> Bcc     :
> Newsgrps:
> Fcc     : sent-mail
> Lcc     :
> Attchmnt:
> Subject :
> ----- Message Text -----
>
>
> Thus, I can easily edit the mail headers.
>
> How do we do it evolution?  Can I easily set the mails headers in
> evolution?

Lonnie's suggestion works (it works for Mozilla and SquirrelMail too);
it's a PITA, because it means updating settings once a day. But it's
better than nothing.

Also, in your compose "Show" (or whatever that is in English, mine's in
Norwegian: "Vis") you can have a "reply-to" field. But you have to fill
this in by hand - that's a PITA, too. There's no option for this in
Mozilla, though there is in SquirrelMail.

> I am sending this email in pine. :-)   I would love to be able to do this
> in evolution.

You can, but it's a workaround. It would be nice if mailers were
designed for this possibility.

-Tonni

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