Eric Johnson
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An error occurred while saving the comment It's already done -- it's called PGP. Send them an encrypted e-mail and the recipient has it until he deletes it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Suppose a spammer using your e-mail address to send out a spam to tens of thousands of recipients. If all those recipients used such a scheme, you would get tens of thousands of requrest to verify those spams.
Anyone who sent me such a request would be blacklisted immediately and forever. They just don't have enough intelligence to bother dealing with.
Don't make your problem a problem for innocent people.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I would love this for a different reason. I have a Visionary account and was going to add a small division (four users) of a small company I work at.
It turns out that the division often sends out e-mails larger than 25 megabytes. The largest e-mail I've seen here was 100 megabytes! and the current e-mail provider supports up to 200 megabytes per e-mail!!! I can't imagine sending an e-mail that large.
Anyway, they have an extra account that is shared and that each must log into to access the shared e-mail. It would be far simpler to have a filter that automagically forwards e-mails to a particular address to each of the people in the company something like a mailing list.
This is of special importance to me in that I'm getting old (currently 68) and all the e-mails regarding domain registrations and e-mail comes to me. If something happens to me, I don't know that they would ever log in to see new notices. It would be far better to have the e-mail come in and then be copied over to each of the others.
One alternative, I guess, would be if I could buy a 25 year subscription so that the account would remain active for 25 years. This wouldn't be likely to work with the domain registrars because they now (at least Network Solutions, anyway) because they will send out a notice to check your information and if you don't respond in time to tell them that the information is correct, they put the domain on hold and redirect all of the DNS queries to their own server that says that the domain has been suspended. This caused us serious problems last fall when they suspended a domain of ours that had some users on it who must legally perform certain actions within a couple of days after the notice is sent out, whether or not they receive the notification. That became a serious issue of public safety within hours on the first day they suspended the domain and continued for the several days to get the domain unsuspended.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Strictly speaking, there is a way to do this, but it is a bit of a pain in the neck.
You can reply to an e-mail that came to an alias and it uses that address in the reply.
So send yourself an e-mail to that alias. Then whenever you want to send an e-mail using that aliases as the sender, reply to the mail you sent yourself and change the title and recipients name and get rid of the text in the message you sent yourself.
Try it. Suppose your address is example@proton.me. Send yourself an e-mail to example+3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475@proton.me. Then use reply to send a message to a friend.
Note that one downside to using aliases is that the PGP encryption no longer works. Each '+' alias you use would need its own PGP key. If you could identify '+' addresses that you would like to use for encrypted e-mail, it would be nice to be able to select those '+' addresses and create a PGP key for each of them.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Filter on the header (I just posted about this)
if header :comparator "i;unicode-casemap" :contains "X-Original-To" "example+0623nat@pm.me"
{
addflag "\\Flagged";
fileinto "Reference/News";
fileinto "Nature";
stop;
}where News is a subfolder of Rference and Nature is a label/tag.
Using header ... "X-Original-To" ..., also filters properly if the sender puts the address as part of a BCC.
It's best to leave the catchall turned off. With catchall turned on, if someone sends an e-mail to a non-existent address, it looks to them like it went through to the intended recipient. Leave it turned off so the sender gets back a response telling them that they made a mistake with the address.