On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:21PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Sam Watkins wrote:
> > >On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > >
> > >>When I use: mail <inet.addrs> it sends mail to that address with the
> > >>options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
> > >>
> > >>But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of
> > >>course does not exist at that inet.addrs.
> > >>
> > >>How do I with an option not send from "root" as root but from
> > >>"whomever" at inet.addrs?
> > >
> > >
> > >You can do something like:
> > >
> > >mail -a 'From: some@bogus.email.address' recipient@wherever.net
> > >
> > >The -a option adds an arbitrary mail header, see mail(1)
> > >
> > >I tested this, it seems to work.
> >
> > Thanks! That's it!
>
> If you have in your ~/.muttrc
>
> my_hdr From: mynormal@email.tld
>
> and
> set edit_headers
>
> then you can simply edit the From: header on the occasions that you want
> to -- assuming they are not too frequent.
>
> Just another thought.
>
> --
> richard
>
>
Hi folks,
here is something I have in my muttrc:
send-hook '~C debian-user' 'my_hdr From: kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com'
send-hook '~C debian-user' 'my_hdr Return-Path: kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com'
so when, I hit 'r', mutt sets these automatically.
HTH
=Kev
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