On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > * calyth@shaw.ca (calyth@shaw.ca) babbled: > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set from="email@email.com" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt ignores it... > > Can someone help? > > this is how i do it: > folder-hook . my_hdr From: name <email@email.com> Again, that will only work if your MTA trusts you. Basically, the MTA pulls the name from /etc/mailname and puts your username infront of it. You therefore need to configure your MTA that you are a privileged user and am allowed to send emails from systems other than your own (which is what it amounts to). This will depend on your MTA - check the man pages for whichever MTA you use. HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s) only. This may or may not be indicated in the above email as it is enormously easy to fake email addresses (see the relevant RFCs). For security reasons this email is likely to be gnupg signed. On the other hand it may not be if I forgot to do so. In any case, if you are reading this on a Windows based computer then there was no point in me doing so (provided that I remembered) as your computer is most likely being used by yourself and 2.8 other people at the same time (normally without your consent). No responsibility will be accepted by anyone for any of the contents of this email. So tough. If in doubt, go compile Mozilla. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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