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Do they have this feature that if you have catch-all enabled and you had just used a random email on some website random-email-addr-smjgg@your-domain.tld and yo

Do they have this feature that if you have catch-all enabled and you had just used a random email on some website random-email-addr-smjgg@your-domain.tld and you receive email sent to that address and when you reply it automatically starts the reply from random-email-addr-smjgg@ and not from some preset-alias@? Because on Mail.app (iOS/Mac) if you want to reply from that random-email-addr-smjgg@ you have to first add that in "Email Address" for that account in Settings. I am trying to find an app that does it (my mail provider is not fastmail, it's mailbox).

Sylamore 5y ago
This is the primary reason I use the fastmail app instead of mail.app, because it uses the incoming email address as the reply address.
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  I don't think this feature is present in any third party mail app (and frankly mailbox is not going to release an app with this feature) and honestly that would be weird to manage as in how do you know gmail.com is not the user's own domain but some-other.tld is. But Fastmail does know this as their app is not a common third party app. Lack of this feature makes full use of catch-all very unintuitive.
  - voltaireodactyl 5y ago
    On mac, that feature is actually available in MailMate, which remains the best in class email client I’m aware of. It’s the only one with that feature though.
  - hiram112 5y ago
    This features (to reply using the alias the email was sent to) was available on AquaMail Android (not free) years ago, though you had to configure it which was painful if you changed phones a lot.
  - Sylamore 5y ago
    Thunderbird can do this with some configuration for replying to emails - set the pattern of the "Reply from this identity when delivery headers match" value of Account Settings. It's not as good as the addon Virtual Identity used to be, but it works for me 85% of the time (see https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity/issues/22#issuecomment-712382568 https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity/issues/22#issu...). For new messages you still need an extension like Identity Chooser or to manually edit the from header before sending.

Sylamore 5y ago

This is the primary reason I use the fastmail app instead of mail.app, because it uses the incoming email address as the reply address.

crossroadsguy 5y ago
I don't think this feature is present in any third party mail app (and frankly mailbox is not going to release an app with this feature) and honestly that would be weird to manage as in how do you know gmail.com is not the user's own domain but some-other.tld is. But Fastmail does know this as their app is not a common third party app. Lack of this feature makes full use of catch-all very unintuitive.
- voltaireodactyl 5y ago
  On mac, that feature is actually available in MailMate, which remains the best in class email client I’m aware of. It’s the only one with that feature though.
- hiram112 5y ago
  This features (to reply using the alias the email was sent to) was available on AquaMail Android (not free) years ago, though you had to configure it which was painful if you changed phones a lot.
- Sylamore 5y ago
  Thunderbird can do this with some configuration for replying to emails - set the pattern of the "Reply from this identity when delivery headers match" value of Account Settings. It's not as good as the addon Virtual Identity used to be, but it works for me 85% of the time (see https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity/issues/22#issuecomment-712382568 https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity/issues/22#issu...). For new messages you still need an extension like Identity Chooser or to manually edit the from header before sending.