On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:41, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jason F wrote:
>>
>> I just noticed that you can only post from the email you have designated
>> as users email.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can post from any email to my account? not just the
>> one I have designated for my username?  Is this a config issue I need to
>> check?
>
> So, first, why would you want to do that?
>
> Second, no, there's not an easy way to do it. If you have the skillz, you
> can hack out the check for the user's email address in the maildaemon code.

I plan on eventually implementing that.  I want to give users the
option to receive notices by email only from their registered address,
or from any address.  I'd determine the laconica user either by
forcing all random aliases unique, or by appending or prepending the
username.

I personally want to be able to post arbitrary stdin from the mail
command (grep -i error /var/log/messages | mail -s `hostname`
[email protected]) and I want to be able to post
from whatever email account I'm currently logged in at.  In my mind I
could also forsee multiple people wanting to post under the same
identica alias, or one person wanting to delegate to another if only
temporarily.  What better way than a trivially revocable random email
alias like the one Laconica already provides.

Further, using the 'sender' of an email to in any way identify the
human that send said email is poor design, as the 'sender' is in no
way guaranteed authentic.
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