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Bug 745154 - Document 'From field override'
Document 'From field override'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: User Documentation
3.14.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-user-docs
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-25 11:51 UTC by Milan Crha
Modified: 2015-03-11 10:42 UTC
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Description Milan Crha 2015-02-25 11:51:55 UTC 
After a change to bug #237917 uses can turn on View->From field override in a new message composer, which lets them change From Name and Email address on the fly, before sending the message.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-03-08 23:09:09 UTC 
@mcrha: I do not see any such option available in the mail composer in the "View" main menu item on Fedora 22 in 3.13.90. Is that disabled in that distro? Please elaborate.
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2015-03-09 09:32:49 UTC 
No, the fix landed for 3.15.91 and later versions. By the way, I would use term "override", than "overwrite", but that's up to you.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2015-03-10 20:02:19 UTC 
I really wonder what's the behavior when the mail server has DKIM and SPF and I set my sender address to mcrha at rh com...

Trying with GMail, my original email address is used instead, and only a header is added to the message:
  X-Google-Original-From: Andre as Milan <mcrha@redhat.org>
Comment 4 André Klapper 2015-03-10 20:45:31 UTC 
Covered in documentation (but probably improvable): https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=69efb73fae57ce24e48dd89b513e16d359153ef6
Comment 5 Milan Crha 2015-03-11 10:42:17 UTC 
(In reply to André Klapper from comment #3)
> I really wonder what's the behavior when the mail server has DKIM and SPF
> and I set my sender address to mcrha at rh com...
> 
> Trying with GMail, my original email address is used instead, and only a
> header is added to the message:
>   X-Google-Original-From: Andre as Milan <mcrha@redhat.org>

It can be a feature of the Google SMTP server. Mine corporate for example refuses to use certain addresses, like other domains, while it lets me change the name part of the email address in certain way.