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    <desc>Change the sender name and address on the fly by setting arbitrary values.</desc>
    
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
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<title>Overriding the "From" field</title>

<p>To set a custom email address and sender name on a message you intend to send, enable <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>From Override Field</gui></guiseq> and change the default sender name and email address in the corresponding fields.</p>

<p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" its:locNote="Translators: If no Wikipedia article exists for your language and you leave the URL untranslated and pointing to the English Wikipedia, you might want to indicate in your translation text that the link is in English.">This functionality can be useful for <link href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Innovations">wildcard mailboxes when using qmail</link> and <link href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags">sub-addressing</link>.</p>

<note style="important"><p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" its:locNote="Translators: If no Wikipedia article exists for your language and you leave the URL untranslated and pointing to the English Wikipedia, you might want to indicate in your translation text that the link is in English.">Setting an arbitrary address might collide with your email provider's <link href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework">Sender Policy Framework</link> and/or <link href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail">DomainKeys Identified Mail</link> restrictions.</p></note>

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