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by lucb1e 1071 days ago
Okay so you can proxy via Apple as well as choose from Alice@example.com, Bob@example.net, or Charles@example.org. What if you want to be Joseph@example.net today? In Thunderbird, you click on the From field and change the name, et voila. From the comment above, I presume that on macOS email, you will need to dig into settings.

My use for this is to give everyone a unique address (bitcointalk.org@lucb1e.com is one that was leaked to spammers already anyway). I block senders that send spam. No need to ever wait for spam filtering or check any spam box, because I get spam on maybe three addresses per year and those are easily dealt with

(Of course, your email server will need to allow using arbitrary sending addresses.)

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> (Of course, your email server will need to allow using arbitrary sending addresses.)

this bit is important. it's not just that thunderbird is magic.

Sure, but at the same time, if other clients cannot do this, then it's also thunderbird that has this advantage