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<p dir="auto">On 15 Feb 2026, at 3:04, Randall Gellens wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 13 Feb 2026, at 17:14, <a href="mailto:mailmate@businessdatasystems.co.nz" style="color: #777777;">mailmate@businessdatasystems.co.nz</a> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I'd really like to have some way of auto populating the From or the Reply-to field</p>
<p dir="auto">Are there any hidden tricks in Mailmate that I can leverage to achieve this?</p>
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<p dir="auto">[1] In the settings of each account is an "Email Address(es)" field. Put your most commonly used addresses there (as this is used to initially populate the "From" drop-down). Use a comma to separate addresses. Below the "Email Address(es)" field is an "Address Pattern" field with a checkbox. Check the box and fill in a pattern to identify your email addresses (e.g., "*@businessdatasystems.co.nz" (without the quotes) to match anything @businessdatasystems.co.nz). If you use multiple domains, you can have multiple patterns, e.g.,:</p>
<p dir="auto">((?!<a href="mailto:ruff@example.org" style="color: #777777;">ruff@example.org</a>).<em>@example.org|.</em>@mutt.example.org|.<em>@gork.com|.</em>@flex.net)</p>
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<p dir="auto">That's something that I've been missing. Having made those setting originally I haven' been back into that dialog. I'll include the email addresses that trip me up most frequently and see how I go.</p>
<p dir="auto">thanks,</p>
<p dir="auto">Malcolm</p>
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