[geeks] Mail Clients With "Masquerade"

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> I'm told that I don't use email the same way most people do.  That's fine,
> as my way works for me and my occasionally high mail volume.
>
> One thing that I've done for a little short of a decade is generate a
> different email address for each company that does business with me.  The
> username+id at domain notation never really worked well for me, especially
> since I then have to convince vendors (and their awful verification
> regexps) that '+' is a valid character in the local-part of the email
> address.  All my email addresses take the form of vendor at subdomain.domain.
>
> They all filter through Postfix to one common spool, and procmail sorts
> the messages into vendor-specific folders.
>
> Problem: I don't have a mail client that makes it possible to return
> messages using the email address the vendor has, and I'd really rather not
> pass around my "real" email address, as a form of spam control.  Ideally,
> I'd switch everyone over to a controlled-access address and allow mail to
> my "real" one from localhost only.
>
> Is this odd feature available in your mail client or one you know of?  I
> could hack it into alpine, but I'd rather not needlessly duplicate effort.

Pretty trivial with (n)mh, I used to do it all the time when I was working 
at an ISP.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org
Austin, TX
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