> >
> > I have something like this in my mind. The thing is that I would like
> > not to expose my original email address. For this, I need to mask both
> > the From and reply-to address. So, what you said only solves half the
> > problem. :-)
> >
> > Sudhakar.
>
> Sounds to me like you want to "munge" the headers, which is a much more
> advanced idea than Evo allows. To do this you are going to have to use
> something more lower level than Evolution. It would not be a good
> practise for Evo to _easily_ send emails without a FROM header. That
> would be a sad day indeed as any John Doe could become a spammer.
Not really. To do what I need to do, you need human intervention, and
human intervention means the rate of spam is very small.
> You may need to write a text filter program to overwrite the "FROM:"
> header with the "REPLY-TO" header and then strip out the REPLY-TO
> header. Some simple perl code should do the trick and then pipe your
> message to `sendmail` for it to hit the MTA (sendmail/postfix/whatever)
> to send it on it's way.
True. But then I use remote IMAP and SMTP to send the mail. I do not
have a SMTP server running on my machine.
I doubt if procmail can be used for outgoing mail. Does not make sense.
Sudhakar.
> People talk about using procmail to filter INCOMING messages, I'm not
> sure if it could do outgoing.
>
> Good luck,
> Chris
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