On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 08:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Quoting Carl Schaefer <schae...@trilug.org>: > > I like to give a different email address to everybody who asks so that > > it's easy to blacklist the ones that attract spam. For example: > > he...@mydomain.com > > jetb...@mydomain.com > > hy...@mydomain.com > > etc. > > Is there a way to get Evolution to send mail with a custom From: header > > No clue, probably not. > > This is a bad idea, and it will not accomplish your goal.
It may be a bad idea, for reasons I'm not aware of (unless you enlighten me), but it does indeed accomplish *my* goal, which seems to be the same as Carl's. > All this does is defeat the purpose of e-mail, which is communication. > You are just making yourself more difficult to communicate with, and > accomplishing nearly nothing. Well, if the "supplier address" (as I call it) starts receiving spam and I cancel the address, it does indeed make it difficult for the spammer to communicate with me, which is exactly the accomplishment I'm looking for. I've been using this approach for years, and find it far preferable to lying awake at night wondering whether or not a spam filter has caught a legitimate message I'll never see. I use no spam filtering at all, except for configuring my MTA to use reputable IP blacklists with the addition of a few specific domains. Surely it's up to the receiver to decide whether or not he/she wants to be difficult to communicate with. I don't understand your hostility to the idea. Craig _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
