On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:16:06PM -0500, dman wrote: > 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. Yes - that's a very useful trick - the only other thing I'd come up with is using 'E' to manually edit the headers - which achieves much the same thing. It seems that postfix (which I use here and on other systems) trusts anyone by default - I've yet to come across any kind of configuration for limiting the from addresses - it would appear that the /etc/mailcap is used by default but postfix is happy to let anyone use anything else if you actually specify it. 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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