[Evolution] [OT] Re: per-message From: header

[Craig <craig 1503 spamslip com>]

On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 08:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Quoting Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>:
> > 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
>
> No clue, probably not.
>
> This is a bad idea, and it will not accomplish your goal.

It may be a bad idea, for reasons I'm not aware of (unless you enlighten
me), but it does indeed accomplish *my* goal, which seems to be the same
as Carl's.


> All this does is defeat the purpose of e-mail, which is communication.  
>   You are just making yourself more difficult to communicate with, and  
> accomplishing nearly nothing.

Well, if the "supplier address" (as I call it) starts receiving spam and
I cancel the address, it does indeed make it difficult for the spammer
to communicate with me, which is exactly the accomplishment I'm looking
for. I've been using this approach for years, and find it far preferable
to lying awake at night wondering whether or not a spam filter has
caught a legitimate message I'll never see. I use no spam filtering at
all, except for configuring my MTA to use reputable IP blacklists with
the addition of a few specific domains.

Surely it's up to the receiver to decide whether or not he/she wants to
be difficult to communicate with. I don't understand your hostility to
the idea.


Craig