Re: [Evolution] Arbitrary "from" addresses?

[Soeren Sonnenburg <evolution-ml nn7 de>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 19:43 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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?


I would love to see this feature too... it is just too annoying having
to go through a list of 100 dummy accounts and choosing the right one...
Why not have it the same way as the To, Cc and Bcc buttons/input fields?

Soeren
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