j8ear

I was wondering if anyone knew of an email client from I could manually edit designate the "From:" field of emails I send?

I know with outlook and others, I can create multiple accounts and have a variety of from addy's available in a drop down, but I just want something where in addition to spelling out the addresses to which I send the email I can also arbitrarily define the address the email is "FROM:"

Ideally this email client will run on windows and be free...all options will be considered though.

Thanks,

-bear

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Jinn

Outlook, Thunderbird, et al -- they all provide this ability. You can designate any "From:" address when you setup the client. However -- if you plan to do something illegal with this spoofed From:, be careful. Most clients do not support obfusticating your email headers, and the true sender is still visible to the trained eye.

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j8ear

Nothing illegal intended, and I'm aware of the one time setup capability of those clients.

Here's my story, I have a domain and ALL the address, but a few a destined to me.

When I register for something my email address is always thedomainatwhichiregister.com@mydomain.com and I invariably get emails from them. However instead of replying with the email address I registered with, i.e. thedomainatwhichiregister.com@mydomain.com, I end up replying with me@mydomain.com...I could go and create pop accounts on my server (instead of directing everything to me@mydomain.com) and then additionally create accounts for each of these pop3 accounts on my email client, but surely there must be an easier way.

Just feeling it out.

-bear

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j8ear

Nothing huh?

Oh well I'll keep looking. I mean you can do this manually when you HELO mail directly off of a server from a port 25 telnet sesch...

In the mean time, I did discover a nice feature in thundebird that allows me to create 'identities' without an associated account which provides a drop down of the from field of my emails and allows me to choose from some preconfigured email addy's.

That'll do for now until I can write my own email client. (this means it'll do forever )

-bear

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TheProf

Hello,

PINE can do exactly what you're asking for, as well as being a smooth-looking email client.

Sty

Uh, no. Pine sucks balls.

Use Mutt

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Redlemon

Yeah, but it isn't free. I use mailshell.com , and all of my email goes to them. I do the same trick that you do (set the from address to match the URL of the site I visit). Another nice part is that you can set different levels of spam protection for each address; I default it to Off, but if I start to get spam, I can either up the spam protection level or cancel the address entirely.

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