OT: RE: My correct em4il address...

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Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> The only address on the list is the john at valar.com one.  When
> John posts from the other address, the message is held for
> moderator approval as coming from a non-subscriber (unless Mark
> changed this :-).

Negative.  I actually had to manually approve the message to which we're
responding.

> That sounds like a problem with Outlook.  I don't use GUI mailers
> very frequently, much preferring mutt, the crufty character
> mailer, that allows me to specify return addresses based on the
> recipient address.  When I press ``L'' to respond to this list,
> the mutt_hooks sees the recipient address and adds the correct
> headers for From: and Reply-To: as it does with other lists.

And further, I have all my filepro email go to one folder.  I use
folder-hook to set the From, Reply-To, and some other headers, depending on
what folder I'm in.

So most of the time, mutt remembers for me.  When I have something in
=received that I need to reply to that goes somewhere that I want other
addresses used for, I just change them before sending.

> >a problem with anyone else.  Does everyone just subscribe as a home and work
> >email account, and *remember* to reply with the correct account?
> 
> That must have been Mark as I don't ``Do Windows''.  I have
> recently installed VMware Fusion on my new Macbook Pro, and have
> XP Pro running on it for testing purposes, but rarely start it
> (mostly to use an ACBL convention card editor as I haven't found
> one for anything but Windows).

I only use Thunderbird to download email from one client who sends
screenshots and PFFs, and stuff from my mum (she loves forwarding mail with
funny pictures, and I long ago got sick of detaching and scp'ing them).
And to run my GMail account, which is hardly ever used.

99.999%+ of my mail is done in mutt.

And I'm going the other way on virtualisation--I've got my XP
gaming/productivity desktop running VirtualBox with OpenSuSE 11.1 for my
perl and mod_perl development, as well as using screen(1) again.  My Cobalt
Qube's hard drive started sounding downright scary, so I powered it off
about 3/4 of a year back.  Recently I got back to using screen when I put
in the vbox with linux.  I just keep it running 24/7.  It doesn't actully
suck up any CPU unless I'm doing something with it, so why not?

> One possibility would be to set up a VPN connection to your home
> machine from the work one or vice-versa, and set up an account in
> Outlook for each.  I do this whenever I'm out of my office using

Maybe just set Reply-To across the board to one address?

> I strongly recommend that people use IMAP accounts and leave the

I've somehow managed to avoid using IMAP so far.  I like POP3, except for
the inability to get at my =received and other folders.  But I live with
it.

> >Remember, this is just a question for those *forced* to use MS Outlook.  I'm
> >just assuming MUTT and virtually any Linux mail client can do it in a more
> >sophisticated or controled way.
> >For now, still locked to the Outlook.
> 
> I would definately use a VPN with separate accounts for each mail
> server.  I did learn a bit while responding to this on the
> limitations of Linux/OS X GUI clients that aren't as smart as I
> thought they would be compared to mutt.

I'd probably just remember to set Reply-To before sending, if I couldn't
use Mutt.  I do that in Thunderbird.  I'm assuming Outlook lets you set
extra headers on demand.  Could be a big assumption...

> We presort incoming mail to different IMAP folders on the server.

And I do it entirely differently...procmail to different mbox files.

> Now that you've gotten me on this subject, I will probably have
> to try Claws again, but since the Mac OS X download page doesn't

Try it on December 25th.  I hear they're releasing a Santa Claws.

> seem to work, I will have to build the X11 version myself.
> Thanks for getting me sidetracked :-).

Don'tcha hate that?  Or my favourite...someone mentions something, and you
go, "Hmm, I wonder how this works..."  About 50 hours later, you've found
out and committed yourself to half a project involving said widget.
Strangely, I usually tend to end up needing such knowledge very soon after
acquiring it.

mark->
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