email and domain names
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Let's say that I own a domain name ABC, and that I have an email service from Autistici. I have the name name at domain set up to forward to my muhammed@Autistici email account.
I read muhammed@Autistici from Evolution, and reply to my emails from there.
Is there a way to show muhammed@ABC as the "sent from"/"reply" address, instead of muhammed@Autistici?
Can I do that via Evolution (or Thunderbird)? Autistici doesn't seem to have the option, unless I missed it when I looked.
(These email accounts are examples that I made up; you can PM me if you'd like to get in touch)
I know that Mail.ru lets you do that, if you have your account configured to collect letters from another account. (It lets you send letters, from inside Mail.ru's box, with the "from" field indicating the address of the other account/box from which your Mail.ru box collects letters.)
But, you have to have it configured so that it's Mail.ru who collects the correspondence from the other box, and it's not the other mailbox that, automatically, forwards it to Mail.ru.
I don't know about Thunderbird, or other e-mail client, being able to do that also, when managing a Mail.ru account. And, it's not convenient for me to test that now.
(You can access that Russian service's web page with an interface in English, if you consider it a better alternative to Autistici.)
That sounds cool; thanks for the recommendation Fernando. Do you know about the privacy laws/procedures that Mail.ru has to follow?
If showing a different address will make spam filters catch my messages, I might hold off on this until I can run my own email server.
I have no idea what the laws are, concerning electronic correspondence, in Russia. But, as a decent enough Democracy, that I know that it is, I don't believe things have got to the point where the government can simply access you e-mail box, any time it wants to, without a warrant - like it happens in the West, already. (But, one thing I can add, is that you're not forced to give any cell phone number, or anything of the sort, when registering at Mail.ru. Nor to tell them who you really are. And, you can have several accounts, if you want to.)
I have no idea if sending a letter from Mail.ru with the "from" field indicating the other e-mail address, will mark it as spam or not. But, being that only possible in the conditions that I've stated (where your Mail.ru account can access the other e-mail box), I suspect it may use the other e-mail box as the ultimate sender. (I'm not sure. But, you can test that...) And, if so, it will be the same thing as having used the other e-mail box.
The little I played with that option in Mail.ru, it gave me the impression that, what this functionality - of adding other boxes from which one can collect e-mail - does, is that it makes your Mail.ru account function as an e-mail client - like Thunderbird and the likes - where you can manage different e-mail boxes from this one account. (So, the results should be similar to Thunderbird and the likes...)
If you want to try it out: go to https://mail.ru/, click on the phrase "Регистрация в почте" ("Registration in the mail [service]"), and, on the lower-right corner, click on the word "русский" ("Russian") to access the list that lets you change the interface language to English.
You can have whatever you want in the "sent from" field if I'm not mistaken, but I think that can also get your e-mail filtered as spam, so I'd advise against it. Just change the reply-to field. I don't know how you do it in evolution, but in Thunderbird, you add another e-mail address click on the button that says "To:", and select "Reply-To:". I guess it's probably similar for Evolution.
If what you're concerned about is people knowing your actual e-mail address, I would use that other e-mail address directly when replying to those people. You can set up multiple accounts in Evolution (and most e-mail clients).
I see; thanks for the heads up onpon
With Evolution, it looks like you only have to access the preferences of an account (menu Edition/Preferences, first tab, select the account and click modify). One of the field specifies the address to answer to.
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