Email clients

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 19:52 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 04/12/2023 04:31, 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.
> 
> Oooh :-) Thank you, I had no idea.

Hi,

IIRC manual editing the From header by the email editor window was
possible with Claws, way before Evolution supported it, but IIRC it's
impossible to add an alias by the settings of an existing account. Maybe
you need to add an account for each alias, if you don't want to edit the
address manually. Claws doesn't work on my old and my new PC anymore, so
I stopped using it a while ago.

Unless I'm missing something Sylpheed does neither supports manual
editing, nor does it provide an alias option by the account preferences.

It might be worth looking at whether and if so what folder template
options and other features the MUAs provide.

IIRC using a sendmail replacement like msmtp is quite comfortable to do
with your favoured (GUI or non-GUI) text editor, but it's a long time
ago that I tested it. You could BCC to yourself to store those "special"
emails by your "ordinary" GUI MUA.

Regards,
Ralf