Email clients

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 04:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 11:55 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > You can do it in Evolution too, but it's not at all intuitive.
> 
> Evolution allows to select the email address and to manually type an
> alias that does replace the From header or alternatively to add an
> alias to the preferences, then it's possible to directly select the
> alias.

LOL. I have been using Evolution since, ooh, 2006? and did not know
until I read your message that I could override the From: address!

Thanks, Ralf!

I wonder if I just never noticed when the feature was added. I should
have a look around, there may be other little nuggets of goodness in
there.

Some interesting headers out of the received test email I sent with a
non-existent From: address:

The fake address (I could have altered the name too, but didn't)):
From: Karl Auer <kauer at fromboodle.com.au>

This is the same for all emails sent via this account:
Organization: Biplane Software

Here is the fake domain:
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fromboodle.com.au

And here is the authenticated name used to send the message, also the
same for all emails send from this account:
authenticated_id: kauer at biplane.com.au

So using aliases is not a very thorough way to hide the actual sending
address.

What I've been doing is setting up send-only accounts that send through
an authenticating SMTP server. That lets me select the desired From:
address from a drop-down list in the field. That's why I said it was a
bit non-intuitive.

Regards, K.

PS: Interestingly, GMail did not consider this email spam, in spite of
the fact that the fake domain is not covered by my SPF record.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer