In opposite order...
Paranoid2000 wrote:Masking and exclusive senders should work perfectly well together (the "x of y" suffix in the email header is normal but can be disabled). Might the problem be with your Outlook setup?
I have a
restruant.xxx@sgdomain.xyz address with restraunt.com setup as an exclusive sender. Normally messages from restraunt.com come in, and the subject line reads
[whatever] - Exclusive sender, but when the masking is turned on, it becomes
[whatever] (restraunt: message 3 of 10), so I think the masking is getting applied before the "counting/bucketting" stage and effectively is turning off the exclusive sender (in this case, I have the exclusive sender set to
someemail@restraunt.xyz). [changed just in case there's a Stan Omeemail working there].
Paranoid2000 wrote:Limiting the masked address to the Reply-To field only would rather undermine the point of address masking (to stop the recipient from identifying your real email address).
I'm not sure I follow -- I only have a limited understanding of MUAs & MTA's work, but I have a friendslink email list (Mailman), and messages come in with this in the header:
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: original_sender@original.domain.xyz
To: friendslink@mailmandomain.xyz
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: [Friendslink] I just saw it on CNN.com: Settlement results in free credit monitoring service
X-BeenThere: friendslink@mailmandomain.xyz
Reply-To: friendslink@mailmandomain.xyz
Sender: friendslink-bounces@mailmandomain.xyz
Errors-To: friendslink-bounces@mailmandomain.xyz
Return-Path: friendslink-bounces@mailmandomain.xyz
In Outlook, this shows up in the short list as from
orignal_sender@original.domain.xyz, and when the message is opened, it shows up as from
friendslink-bounces@mailmandomain.xyz on behalf of original_sender@original.domain.xyz
When I reply, it goes to
friendslink@mailmandomain.xyz by default (of course I can change that while composing the message, but I usually don't).
It seems to me that nothing would change on the outgoing end of spamgourmet; the only thing that would change would be leaving the original sender in the
From: header, and putting the munged address in the
Reply To: header if masking is turned on, and the message is being sent to
restraunt.xxx@sgdomain.xyz.
Of course on the outgoing message, I want the
From: header to be
restraunt.xxxx@sgdomain.xyz with no traces of my protected address in the message.