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Re: "Any way this weird email thing can be done?"
I expect you could do this with procmail -- one recipe to forward the correct mails to your phone, and another to forward the ones from the phone to the correct address, with some appropriate munging on the way to make sure the correct address survives (maybe by using user+data_stored_here@example.com as the From address of the mail to your phone). May take some work to get right, though.
Nov 06 · 8 weeks ago
Thanks, I'll try tinkering with that. (A family member wound up buying me an almost brand-new Nokia smartphone, so I may as well put off buying anything else for myself for a while.)
Any way this weird email thing can be done? — Context, aka why do I even want to do this I'm heavily considering buying a Sunbeam Wireless dumbphone, since there's nothing I *need* a smartphone for... except for one thing, and that's replying to Dreamwidth comments on the go. It's on the smoller, more retro side of social media, and I don't want to give that up. (Okay, I admit it, I'm a roleplayer, and my partners and I really boomerang those replies when I have downtime at work. I don't want...