[geeks] Mail Clients With "Masquerade"

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>
" 
" []
" 
" One thing that I've done for a little short of a decade is generate a
" different email address for each company that does business with me.  The
" username+id at domain notation never really worked well for me, especially
" since I then have to convince vendors (and their awful verification
" regexps) that '+' is a valid character in the local-part of the email
" address.  All my email addresses take the form of vendor at subdomain.domain.
" 
" They all filter through Postfix to one common spool, and procmail sorts
" the messages into vendor-specific folders.
" 
" Problem: I don't have a mail client that makes it possible to return
" messages using the email address the vendor has, and I'd really rather not
" pass around my "real" email address, as a form of spam control.  Ideally,
" I'd switch everyone over to a controlled-access address and allow mail to
" my "real" one from localhost only.
" 
" Is this odd feature available in your mail client or one you know of?  I
" could hack it into alpine, but I'd rather not needlessly duplicate effort.

you may not have to change the sender address.  setting reply-to may
be enough.

good ol' mailx can do a lot of things like this, but i don't know if
reply-to is one of them.  it does let you edit your entire message,
headers included, and monkey with them.
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