On 13 Feb 2026, at 17:14, [email protected] wrote:
As I manage my own domain name I'm able to make-up mail addresses to
match the group or organisation I'm dealing with whenever I'm asked to
provide one.
Rather than creating a corresponding email account on my server (too
much effort) I simply create a Smart Mailbox in Mailmate which filters
on the TO address.
Mail to these addresses all ends up in the postmaster account unless I
generate a forwarding rule. I usually reserve that action for
forwarding them to /dev/null when the organisation becomes annoying.
That works perfectly for receiving mail. However, when I reply to mail
the FROM field is postmaster@ rather than my whatever_lol@
not-an-email address.
I'd really like to have some way of auto populating the From or the
Reply-to field without having to remember to use the Customise option.
Are there any hidden tricks in Mailmate that I can leverage to achieve
this?
I've been using unique email address for each group or business. My
mailserver is set to deliver all mail with an unknown recipient address
to my main account, and I use MailMate rules to move messages into
different physical mailboxes. When I reply to a message, MailMate is
smart enough to find the recipient address that matches my email pattern
in the account settings[1], and use that address as the "From" address.
In the fairly rare case where it doesn't use the right address, I use
the drop-down control in the "From" field of the composition window to
edit it.
[1] In the settings of each account is an "Email Address(es)" field. Put
your most commonly used addresses there (as this is used to initially
populate the "From" drop-down). Use a comma to separate addresses. Below
the "Email Address(es)" field is an "Address Pattern" field with a
checkbox. Check the box and fill in a pattern to identify your email
addresses (e.g., "*@businessdatasystems\.co\.nz" (without the quotes)
to match anything @businessdatasystems.co.nz). If you use multiple
domains, you can have multiple patterns, e.g.,:
(([email protected]).*@example\.org|.*@mutt\.example\.org|.*@gork\.com|.*@flex\.net)
--Randall
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