Re: [Evolution] per-message From: header

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2015, 19:01 -0400 schrieb Carl Schaefer:
> I like to give a different email address to everybody who asks so that
> it's easy to blacklist the ones that attract spam.  For example:
>
> hertz mydomain com
> jetblue mydomain com
> hyatt mydomain com
> etc.
>
> Is there a way to get Evolution to send mail with a custom From: header
> that could be specified independently for each message, e.g.
>
> Carl Schaefer <hertz mydomain com>
>
> without defining a separate account in Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts
> for each such From: address?  That approach works, but it doesn't scale
> to the number of addresses I have.
>
> My other mail client (emacs) makes this very easy, since I can edit the
> headers as plain text, just like the body.
>
> thanks!
> Carl
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Take a look at the procmail package [1] (http://www.procmail.org/),
specifically at the formail program. Set up a filter for outgoing mail
to insert or replace your custom From: header.


[1]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2014-October/msg00223.html


-- 
thomas