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I'd like to describe a neat feature of my email set-up. Whenever I
write an email to a specific address, I would like to use a different
~FROM~-address for this email recipient instead of my standard email
address.

This way, I can give away contact-specific email addresses. That's
quite handy when you've got a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-all][catch-all email domain]] or you are using
[[http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.at/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html][some more or less hidden features of cloud-based email services]].

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Having this possibility, enables me to use ~FROM~-addresses like
~Microsoft@MYDOMAIN.at~ for emails that I write to Microsoft,
event-related addresses like ~chi09@MYDOMAIN.at~ when I write to
people I met at this conference back then, and so on.

For this purpose, I wrote [[https://github.com/novoid/muttfilter.py][muttfilter.py]] which does the trick for me
fully automatically.

Let's take a look at an example [[http://orgmode.org][Emacs Org-mode]] [[https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts][Org-contacts]] entry
which looks like that:

: ** Bob Simpson                :research:chi09:BobSimpson:
: :PROPERTIES:
: :TYPE:
: :TITLE: Dr.
: :EMAIL: Bob.Simpson@example.com
: :oldEMAIL: Bob.Simpson@outdated.example.com
: :URL: http://example.com/bob
: :MOBILE:
: :HOMEPHONE:
: :WORKPHONE:
: :COMPANY: This cool research company
: :STREET: 42 Weirdstreet
: :POSTALCODE: 12345
: :CITY: Denver
: :COUNTRY: USA
: :PHOTOGRAPH: [[photo:BobSimpson.jpg]]
: :BORN: 1970-12-31
: :ITOLDTHEM_EMAIL: chi09@MYDOMAIN.at
: :ITOLDTHEM_ADDRESS:
: :ITOLDTHEM_PHONE:
: :ADDRESS_CHANGE_METHOD: email
: :CREATED:  [2015-01-30 Fri 17:51]
: :END:
:
: - first contact: CHI conference 2009
:   - we had a nice lunch time together

Whenever I write an email to Bob (property ~:EMAIL:~), I would like to
use ~chi09@MYDOMAIN.at~ (property ~:ITOLDTHEM_EMAIL:~) instead of my
standard email address.

The [[https://github.com/novoid/muttfilter.py][README file on the GitHub-page]] explains how to install and set-up
this script. I'm using it with [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]] and [[http://www.vim.org/][gVim]] but it should work with
any [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client][MUA]]/Editor combination which allows a wrapper script to be called
before composing an email.