On 20 October 2015 at 13:56, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > I just came up with this, and I thought it might be useful to people. > > I put in my components file the following line: > > %<{from}%?(getenv MH_FROM)%|%(void(localmbox))%>%(void(width))%(putaddr From: > ) > > That lets me, in priority order, set my From: header as the following: > > - The -from switch to comp(1) > - The value of the MH_FROM environment variable > - Nmh's idea of my local mailbox (configured via Local-Mailbox, or if > that's missing taking a guess based on the local username and hostname). > > I have a few shell aliases which set MH_FROM to useful values. I find > myself juggling multiple identities more and more, and I finally got tired > of editing my From: header by hand. That's not the only piece of the > puzzle, though ... I have a postproc which submits the email to the > 'correct' SMTP server and my replcomps has a number of contortions to > choose the correct From: header (that works actually surprisingly well > in practice).
I'd never even thought to attempt what you made work. Quite interesting. > As a question to everyone else: how do others who juggle multiple email > identities make it work? I just edit From: which I don't do very often, mostly when I'm replying to CraigsList stuff. Somewhat related, I create new email aliases for each vendor that asks me for an email, e.g. [email protected]. If localstore gets hacked, then my personal email doesn't suffer the consequences, as I can just comment out "localstore" in my /etc/aliases for a while. Of a hundred or more vendor aliases I have only two have spammed me: Qwest and PetMeds. In both cases I got hardcopy and softcopy spam prior to getting the product/service I ordered. Qwest spelled my name wrong, and I could follow the chain of parties that had received my contact info through Qwest. Maybe the /etc/aliases trick will work for others? Cheerio.... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
