Hi everyone,
I'm working on a privacy-focused email setup and ran into an issue with Thunderbird.
Here's the situation: I use a catch-all email address for my domain, s… (ketahui selanjutnya)
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a privacy-focused email setup and ran into an issue with Thunderbird.
Here's the situation: I use a catch-all email address for my domain, so anything sent to *@mydomain.com gets forwarded to my real inbox at secret@mydomain.com. This allows me to use unique aliases like alias1@mydomain.com, alias2@mydomain.com, and so on, without revealing my actual email address.
That part works well.
The problem comes when I reply to messages. Thunderbird automatically sets the sender as secret@mydomain.com, even if the original message was sent to an alias. That defeats the purpose, since it exposes my real address to the recipient.
Thunderbird does let you set up additional identities, but maintaining one for every alias quickly becomes impractical if you use a lot of them.
I tried a workaround where my mail server adds a custom header like "X-Alias: alias1@mydomain.com" to incoming messages. The idea is that when I send a reply, the server could read that header and rewrite the From address accordingly, keeping the alias intact and hiding my real address.
Unfortunately, I found that Thunderbird strips out custom headers like X-Alias when sending emails, which breaks this solution.
So I have two main questions:
1. Is there any way to configure Thunderbird so it preserves specific custom headers (like X-Alias) when sending messages?
2. Alternatively, is there a better approach to replying from the alias address automatically, without exposing my real one, and without having to manually create identities for each alias?
I'd really appreciate any tips, suggestions, or insights. Thanks!