[MlMt] Feature Request: Deal with "hide my email"

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-31 at 03:19:48 UTC-0500 (Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:19:48 +0100)
Felix Kronlage-Dammers via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> On 30 Dec 2024, at 22:03, Stephan Bösebeck wrote:
>
>> very seldom I use the "hide my Email" from MacOs, especially for kind of sketchy websites 😉
>> When using MailMate, replying would change to my default email or in that case the iCloud email. It would be great, if MailMate could detect those and use that reply address...
>
> When you receive a message to a “Hide my e-mail” address the original From: is rewritten and substituted by an address from the apple service. If you reply to the mail, you’ll reply to this substituted address which will cause the service to rewrite your reply and send it to the original address WITH your hide-my-e-mail address in the From :)
>
> There is no need for MailMate to do anything here.

Except for what MailMate does normally: match the sender address in replies to the recipient address of the original message. This is not something you get from all other MUAs.

I'm not sure that MM will work automatically with the Apple Hide My Email messages, as there is no obvious way for MM to map the very random addresses that Apple uses onto a particular account for SMTP purposes. You *may* need to add a very loose pattern in the account's "Address Pattern" for that to work automatically.

However, MM is great in part because even if the automatic address picking scheme misses, you can still use the "Customize" option in the From pull-down menu to set whatever address you want to use on each message. Doing so doesn't modify settings, it merely sets the address for that one message.


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