On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 17:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > Depends on what you think an alias is. To me an alias is an address > that should be treated like something else. So if an address of > [email protected] is the main address and [email protected] is an alias, > then > I would expect that if mail arrives with a To: address of > [email protected], Evolution will treat it like [email protected]. So when > you > press reply, the reply will come from [email protected]. > > If you are expecting to treat fred@ and joe@ differently, then they > are > not aliases, they are separate addresses that happen to be in the > same > folder (possibly).
The alias begins right at the sever. When you setup your email address [email protected] on the server, you can specify aliases such as joe@blogs .com which are delivered to the same address. So when you setup an account in Evolution as [email protected] it will include messages in the inbox for any alias setup on the server. Adding an alias to the Evolution account means you can send messages from those aliases you already have setup on the server without having to setup individual accounts in the mail client. So instead of sending the message from [email protected], you can use the same account, but send from [email protected]. That is essentially what an alias is. Also, when you receive a message sent to [email protected], and you reply to it, Evolution will send it from [email protected]. If you don't have the alias setup, Evolution will send it from [email protected]. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
