On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:01 +0000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > 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?
I can understand defaulting to a limited set of accounts but then the
pull down needs a couple of entries for "Use Reply-To" and "Other" (if
you want different From and Reply-To). The first one would be
relatively simple to implement. The later would require another entry
box (maybe replacing the pulldown).
> Soeren
Mike
--
Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all
PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
