Spiffy new e-mail program?

[zdashamber]

My style is still a bit cramped: SBC Yahoo requires for their SMTP server some form of authentication that my e-mail program can't do, and they apparently block my access to other SMTP servers so I can't fall back to the one for my domain. So apparently, after 8 years, I'm going to have to upgrade my e-mail program. Dammit!

There's one feature I have been missing with what I've got currently. Does anyone know if there's an e-mail program out there that will look at various things in the mail (most crucially, the "To:" field) and then slap a label you've written into the title? I have about a hundred e-mail addresses with my domain; make a new one each time one's called for, and they all forward to my main. It'd be sweet if the ones coming in from, say, Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog ("tblog") would get retitled from "V1AgrA1!" to "[tblog] V1AgrA1!".

Though since I delete it all at the server these days anyway, I suppose what I need is a better server mail program. Currently beyond my capabilities to screw with, alas.

Still, it'd be damn useful for the Amberlist, which no longer has any distinguishing marks, which is a huge pain in the ass, Sol... ;)

Lacking that, if you like, I'm interested in hearing you tout the wonders of your favorite modern mail program.

Ek. New things. Bah. I bet it'll display HTML. Do I want to see HTML e-mails? Hell no. Image tracking, blinking flibbertigibbets, man doesn't need that kind of froo-forah in his communication...

Edit: Oh, the old program, Eudora 4.0, has the ability to edit e-mails sent to me. I'd hate to lose that. Lets me cut out gobs of carating, and write notes to myself on when I asked to be removed from mailing lists...

Comments

[a2macgeek.livejournal.com]

SBC/Yahoo blocks port 25, supposedly for anti-spam reasons. You can have this default changed. According to what I've read, you need to do the following:

"Go here:
http://help.sbcglobal.net/servabuse.php?
and fill in the fields. On the next page, select "**Opt Out Port 25" from the "Abuse Type" list. One user said that port 25 was re-activated within a few hours.

You could also use port 587 for outgoing mail, if it is supported by your mail server. See this for a general overview of the Port 25 issue:
http://help.sbcglobal.net/article.php?item=4640"

Hope this helps!

[colomon.livejournal.com]

Believe me, no one understands better than me the extent to which the Amber list is currently held together by .... ummm ... thin patchy things that don't stick together very well. (Too tired for proper metaphors.)

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Aw. I'm sorry, I was under the impression that the new system was easier for you. Otherwise I wouldn't have poked you in public. Anything I can do to help?

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Gmail lets you filter by To, From, Subject etc and then apply a label, which while it doesn't actually change the subject, it applies the label immediately to the left of the subject, so it looks like what you are asking for.

[colomon.livejournal.com]

When it's in place, the new system will be easier, and much spiffier, too. In the meantime, the system is just a simple mailing address expander program with some filters on it (so the rest of you are not buried in the mountain of spam that comes to the mailing list address). I manage adds and deletes by hand.