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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:31:20 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mailreader with "multiple personalities"? 
Message-ID:  <199802171131.DAA01586@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:35:33 %2B0100." <19980216133533.42366@deepo.prosa.dk> 

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> Mike Smith writes:
> > 
> > However, I have a number of different contact addresses, and want to 
> > retain the individuality of these, ie. mail to one should be answered 
> > as thought it had come from that one, rather than having everything 
> > effectively forwarded to a single mailbox.
> 
> 	Questions:
> 
> 	1) are the addresses forwarded to you or do you Cw/Fw them to
> 	   your host ?

I pick them up from my hosts using fetchmail.

> 	2) should the whole envelope be redone, or just the "From: " ?

The desired result is that mail I send from within one "personality" 
should be formatted such that a legitimate reply by another party will 
return to that "personality".

> 	Apart from that, a rewriting rule in sendmail might do the trick.
> 	At MUA level, maybe you could do this with Mutt and the hooks.

Hmm.  Mutt reminds me too much of my old VT100 days.  8(
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