On 2026-02-13 at 20:14:50 UTC-0500 (Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:14:50 +1300)
<[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
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.
I've been doing this for 30 years. It helps keep my "real" mailbox clean
AND helps me organizing my email.
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.
I think you may need to expand your server-side work...
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?
Not sure if it's enough, but if there's a pattern to the addresses you
use, and you know how to write "regular expression" patterns, use the
"Address Pattern" field of the Edit Account dialog box to cover the
addresses that *might* end up in a To header.
It will NOT work by itself with mailing lists, which put their own
address into the To header. For that, you need to make your mail server
add an "X-Original-To" header with the original envelope recipient
address that was eventually dropped into the postmaster box. for
example, all the mail in my MailMate List mailbox has this:
X-Original-To: [email protected]
And MailMate automatically used that address when I started this reply.
Your mail server MAY already add that header automatically. Postfix does
it by default, based on the enable_original_recipient setting defaulting
to "yes."
I take this all a step further, with my mail server delivering (via
procmail) everything sent to any address other than the "real" one into
some other mailbox, with newly created ones and those with low volume
landing in a generic "Tagged" mailbox, in which replies still work
right.
--
Bill Cole
[email protected] or [email protected]
(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
Not Currently Available For Hire
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