On 20 October 2015 at 13:56, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
I just came up with this, and I thought it might be useful to people.
I put in my components file the following line:
%<{from}%?(getenv MH_FROM)%|%(void(localmbox))%>%(void(width))%(putaddr From:
)
That lets me, in priority order, set my From: header as the following:
- The -from switch to comp(1)
- The value of the MH_FROM environment variable
- Nmh's idea of my local mailbox (configured via Local-Mailbox, or if
that's missing taking a guess based on the local username and hostname).
I have a few shell aliases which set MH_FROM to useful values. I find
myself juggling multiple identities more and more, and I finally got tired
of editing my From: header by hand. That's not the only piece of the
puzzle, though ... I have a postproc which submits the email to the
'correct' SMTP server and my replcomps has a number of contortions to
choose the correct From: header (that works actually surprisingly well
in practice).
I'd never even thought to attempt what you made work. Quite
interesting.
As a question to everyone else: how do others who juggle multiple email
identities make it work?
I just edit From: which I don't do very often, mostly when I'm
replying to CraigsList stuff.
Somewhat related, I create new email aliases for each vendor that
asks me for an email, e.g. localstore@my.domain. If localstore gets
hacked, then my personal email doesn't suffer the consequences, as I
can just comment out "localstore" in my /etc/aliases for a while. Of a
hundred or more vendor aliases I have only two have spammed me: Qwest
and PetMeds. In both cases I got hardcopy and softcopy spam prior to
getting the product/service I ordered. Qwest spelled my name wrong,
and I could follow the chain of parties that had received my contact
info through Qwest. Maybe the /etc/aliases trick will work for
others?
Cheerio....
--
Kevin
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