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Originally Posted by n5bb
The wildcard * in the identity is initially automatically replaced with the local-part of your default Fastmail account local-part to create the default From address.
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That seems to be true when you try to compose a brand-new email. But - usefully - I find that when you are instead making a reply to something, the initial value seems to be whatever the fastmail system would previously have assumed was the most appropriate identity.
So for someone like me who currently has a lot of separately-defined identities, and lots of folders with their own default sending-id, the asterisked definition gets preloaded with different values in different circumstances. Whether that's useful or not depends on how you use your identities.