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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
