How to use custom sender when sending an email. (To get rid of spam)

[pivert]

Hi,

I use to give a different email address to every web site I leave my email address. So, I would like to know :
- How can I enter a custom sender email address (ie msn@mydomain.com or zimbra@mydomain.com) ?
- How can I activate that Zimbra will by default reuse the same sender address when I have a reply to one of my sent mail ?

P.S. : I have of course a 'catch all' setup.
P.S. : Persona are too heavy to use for every new email I create/write.

Regards,

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by pivert

Hi,

I use to give a different email address to every web site I leave my email address. So, I would like to know :
- How can I enter a custom sender email address (ie msn@mydomain.com or zimbra@mydomain.com) ?
- How can I activate that Zimbra will by default reuse the same sender address when I have a reply to one of my sent mail ?

The answer to that is use a Persona.

Originally Posted by pivert

P.S. : I have of course a 'catch all' setup.

Why 'of course you have a catch-all'? That's a spammers dream, you'll get more spam if you use a catch-all and the Zimbra anti-spam can't stop it.

Originally Posted by pivert

P.S. : Persona are too heavy to use for every new email I create/write.

Then how else would you expect to do it? You'll have to have some initial manual method whereby you create the different email Persona addresses.

[pivert]

Hi Phoenix,

- "Catch all" setup is a dream for me, and a nightmare for spammers, because they don't know my domain. I receive quite to no spam. In 5 years I had to blacklist only 10 of my emails that were used by spammers, and this showed me immediately who/which site has leaks or sold my email, including openvpn@mydomain, mysql@mydomain, microsoft@mydomain, ...

- I do not want to be obliged to create a persona everytime I use a new email address (multiple time a day). Most of the time, the email is just used once. I just want instead to have a free 'from:' field when I just put the email I send from (ideally with the @mydomain fixed).

- An other important feature would be to automatically use the destination email address as from email when replying. Kmail had these features.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by pivert

- "Catch all" setup is a dream for me, and a nightmare for spammers, because they don't know my domain. I receive quite to no spam. In 5 years I had to blacklist only 10 of my emails that were used by spammers, and this showed me immediately who/which site has leaks or sold my email, including openvpn@mydomain, mysql@mydomain, microsoft@mydomain, ...

I think you're misunderstanding what a catch-all is. It allows spammers to send you a ton of email and you will have no method of stopping because a catch-all (by definition) will accept all email sent to your domain.