Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing
| with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up
| in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a
| change: When I look at the debian-user list in mutt, my posts no longer
| show my name, Paul Mackinney. Instead "To debian-user@" is displayed.
| 
| I figure that either a) my headers are munged and everyone is seeing "To
| debain-user@", or b) mutt has some setting where it helpfully shows me
| the To: header on messages that I originated. Which is it?

It's the latter.  Here is an except from my .muttrc which prevents
this annoying (IMO) feature.

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# let mutt recognize other stuff from me
# this is needed so that mutt doesn't display my name in the "Sent" mailbox,
set alternates = "dsh8290@.*rit.edu"

################################################################################
# Folder hooks :

# default action (index_format is default, except it displays "From" instead)
folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s"

# sorting for inbox
folder-hook "!" set sort=date-received

# display To, not From, in Sent folder
#folder-hook Sent set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s"

# sorting for lists 
# display the author's real name, not the list (or my name!) in index view
folder-hook lists.* set sort=threads ; set sort_aux=date ;  \
	set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n(%4l,%3M) %s%| "

#
################################################################################

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Based on my comments I think it is the index_format string that is set
by my folder-hook's that corrects the situation.

HTH,
-D