Paco Hope #resist's Post

I #selfhost my #email, which means that I can have any email addresses I want. I have a domain I use where whatever@domain will land in my inbox. I use distinct emails for all kinds of web sites. amazon@domain and ebay@domain and so on.

Today I got a message from some small company that helps people rent apartments. They write 'Your email address flagged up in our system, can you supply another email address please?'. I wrote back using my made-up email address as a From address. No. I don't have another email address to give you.

They tried again. "Your email address flagged up in our system." It's hilarious because that's just technobabble. "Flagged up" means nothing at all. There's nothing wrong with my email address. I know WAY more about email than they do. So I wrote back "this email address obviously works because we're having a back and forth conversation using it. Please make no changes."

They gave up and used the email I gave them.

Here's the feature in Apple Mail that lets you select your From address. And I have special cased my ID in Postfix so that if I login with MY ID, I can send emails from an address other than my logged in address

#selfhosting #mail #postfix