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

[Sudhakar Govindavajhala <sudhakar cs princeton edu>]

well, this is kind of a standard feature of sendmail.  i mean instead of
sudhakar cs     my mail server understands that
sudhakar+evolution cs     corresponds to sudhakar cs   

apparently this feature is something that has been there for 20 years.


sudhakar.



On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:52, Jason A Miller wrote:
> I don't know about anyone else on this list, but to me that would be an
> extraordinarily dangerous ability for a mail client to have.
>
> As a mail server administrator, I would most certainly find the person who was
> forging hundreds of emails at a time and virtually castrate them. ;->
>
> Even for "research", this is a bad idea all around.
>
> Sorry for being a bit O.T.  Just have been following this thread and didn't
> want it to restart.
>
> --- J A Miller (Linuxdevr)
> jmiller gootnee com
> http://chipnet.dyndns.org/
>
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 sudhakar+evolution CS Princeton EDU wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > I am sending this email in pine. :-)   I would love to be able to do this
> > in evolution.
> >
> > regards,
> > Sudhakar.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sudhakar Govindavajhala                       Department of Computer Science
> > Graduate Student,                         Princeton University
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Sudhakar Govindavajhala                   Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student,                         Princeton University
Ph : (c) +1 609 273 8407                  (o) +1 609 258 1763
                                              +1 609 258 1798
               http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar