Re: smail, mutt and outgoing From: field
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:29:21PM -0800, "G. Crimp"@freenet.victoria.bc.ca wrote:
> With my old system, I told mutt to strip off the existing From: field
> and add the custom header
>
> From: <userid_1@isp1.com> "My Name"
>
> In the past this worked marvelously. With my new system however,
> userid1@isp1.com gets quoted as if it were my Real Name
>
> "userid_1@isp1.com"
Is your realname mentioned in /etc/passwd?
Anyways you can set any From line by putting such a line in your
~/.muttrc:
my_hdr From: user@host.org (Your Real Name)
Regards
Joey
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