Hey all,
How do I enter arbitrary addresses for the "From" address?
Now, before anybody asks "why in the world would you want to do
something weird like that" let me explain...
I occasionally have need to take advantage of "+" extensions for
special purposes. So, I'll send out a message with mhw+foo wittsend com
as the From address. Anything of the form "foo+bar" coming back into
sendmail (or postfix) will go to foo if foo+bar does not exist.
Procmail and other processors can then separate out mail based on
extensions and I detect abuse of certain accounts I'm dealing with that
way. Even QMail supports something similar, but they use a different
separator character.
In the past, I've always resorted to another mailer to do this (good
old Mutt more often than not). This last time got me thinking, "why
can't evolution do this?"
Anyone got any thoughts other than (gag) setting up dummy accounts for
every address extension I want to use?
Mike
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