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I’m reaching out to you – my internet junky peers – for some help here. It borders on technical, so if you’re looking for an outline of my current wardrobe, keep moving.

I have several e-mail addresses, and they all have a purpose. The reasons for this are immaterial (though I’ll assure you that they have nothing to do with porn, drugs, embezzlement or terrorism), but I’ve got a real problem.

I’m a GMail fan, and have been for the last year or so. The labels are brilliant for coordinating all of my different e-mail accounts in one spot…and that’s exactly what I do. I have five different e-mail accounts forwarding to my GMail account; it’s awesome. I check one place for all of my e-mail, regardless of where I am. I’m guilty of loving webmail back in ‘96, then hating it in favor of pine/IMAP, then using Outlook, back to appreciating that nobody offers IMAP anymore and Webmail gives me the next best thing.

So here’s the problem. I want to be able to select a “Reply-To:” address and signature at time of response/composition via a webmail interface. In other words, I want all of my accounts to forward to one place, and to retain the appropriate address when I send it. For replies, the interface could detect the original “To:” value, and automatically match the “Reply-To:” that’s appropriate. For new compositions, I’d have to select which account to send from.

I’ve already suggested this feature at GMail, but I’m sure it ranks well below things like “make my background a pretty pink color” in terms of popularity, so I’m not holding my breath.

Do any of you have this problem? Have you solved it?

I’m really tired of manually changing my signature/reply-to fifteen times a day…