Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote:
| 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.
I bet the MTA on my school's system doesn't trust me. However, the
"my_hdr From: <blah>" works just fine. I too never quite got the
"from" directive to work as I expected, but the "my_hdr" allows for
customization of any (official or made-up) headers.
-D
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