Re: [Evolution] PGP signing and aliases

[Gary C Curtin <gary curtin gmx ie>]

On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 17:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Depends on what you think an alias is.  To me an alias is an address
> that should be treated like something else. So if an address of 
> fred blogs com is the main address and joe blogs com is an alias,
> then
> I would expect that if mail arrives with a To: address of
> joe blogs com, Evolution will treat it like fred blogs com. So when
> you
> press reply, the reply will come from fred blogs com.
>
> If you are expecting to treat fred@ and joe@ differently, then they
> are
> not aliases, they are separate addresses that happen to be in the
> same
> folder (possibly).

The alias begins right at the sever. When you setup your email address 
fred blogs com on the server, you can specify aliases such as joe@blogs
.com which are delivered to the same address. So when you setup an
account in Evolution as fred blogs com it will include messages in the
inbox for any alias setup on the server.

Adding an alias to the Evolution account means you can send messages
from those aliases you already have setup on the server without having
to setup individual accounts in the mail client. So instead of sending
the message from fred blogs com, you can use the same account, but send
from joe blogs com. That is essentially what an alias is. Also, when
you receive a message sent to joe blogs com, and you reply to it,
Evolution will send it from joe blogs com. If you don't have the alias
setup, Evolution will send it from fred blogs com.