[MlMt] Alternate addresses

[Shawn Morris]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Benny Kjær Nielsen
<mailinglist at freron.com>wrote:

> On 30 Dec 2013, at 23:30, Shawn Morris wrote:
>
> I have multiple addresses from work, but I only ever want to send mail from
> one. In mutt I handle this in the following way:
> set reverse_name=no (This is actually the default)
> alternates shawn at us..net smorris at us..net smorris at .net
>
> This lets mutt know that I am those 3 addresses but my mail always comes
> from shawn at .net
>
>  I think I understand the problem. It sounds a bit like what you really
> need is some kind of redirection of messages during message delivery, but I
> guess that is not possible.
>

Well, I've thought about looking into doing a server-side re-write of the
To:, but that seems impratical.


> I cannot think of a way that you can solve this problem in MailMate as it
> is now. I guess a setting similar to reverse_name=no could solve it, but
> that only works when you want this behavior for *all* email addresses. It
> would be nice if a solution could handle any combination of email addresses.
>
> In other mail clients I've worked around this by setting the reply-to for
> the other addresses to the preferred address,
>
> How does that solve the problem? You would still be using the wrong sender
> in the first reply -- or do I not understand what you do?
>

It's sub-optimal and doesn't affect the From: field, but at least any
further replies to the thread should go to the primary address.

 but I haven't found a way to
> do this in Mailmate. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I'm afraid there is no way to this yet.
>
> --
> Benny
>
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