* Paul Mackinney (paul@mackinney.net) [010816 16:39]: > 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? Now that Mutt knows what your mailing lists are, it can do several things, the first of which is the ability to show the name of a list through which you received a message (i.e., of a subscribed list) in the index menu display. This is useful to distinguish between personal and list mail in the same mailbox. In the ``$index_format'' variable, the escape ``%L'' will return the string ``To <list>'' when ``list'' appears in the ``To'' field, and ``Cc <list>'' when it appears in the ``Cc'' field (otherwise it returns the name of the author). (from the mutt manual) there's what's doing it, and why. As for the use of the "lists" and "subscribe" statements, it's briefly discussed in the same place. The short answer is "use 'lists' to tell mutt about addresses that are mailing lists to which you are not subscribed. Use 'subscribe' to tell mutt about lists to which you are subscribed." Mutt will take it from there, providing you with appropriate Mail-Followup-To actions. Cheers, -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
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