Re: Multiple e-mail personalities

[loki <eloki@dingoblue.net.au>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:11:54PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:

> The problem is that I have several e-mail addresses that I want to use
> to send and receive mail with my home computer.  I currently use mutt
> as my reader and exim as my transport.  Does anyone know how to
> configure mutt to use multiple names and how to configure exim so it
> sees how the message is addressed and uses the smarthost for the right
> from address?

I've had this same problem but have always been putting off finding the
solution.  I figured I needed to feed my From: address directly into
exim using the -f switch, and configure mutt to use -f when calling
sendmail (changing its sendmail line using folder hooks).  However, the
address rewriting feature of exim proved a stumbling block, since it
rewrote it every time in my testing, despite using -f.  Perhaps it's
possible and I simply wasn't approaching it in the right way.

In the end, I realised it was much simpler to go with merely what Brian
May posted, with the addition of a single line to your exim rewriting
rules. Previously I had just the following:

*@hoop    ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
                                                {$value}fail} bcfrF
						
as my rewriting rule.  Supposing you want to send sometimes as
pied@piper.com, I'd put something like:

pied@piper.com   *   bcfrF
						
before the generic rule, which tells exim not to rewrite addresses
matching the first field.

Using folder hooks as in Brian May's mail, just make sure your From:
header is set to pied@piper.com when you change to the appropriate
folders.  Seems to work for me now,


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