Re: Mutt and From: line
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name
> currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where.
>
> I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From:
> with every combination of strings I can think of, and I cannot get mutt
> to display my full name in the mutt message list menu. Instead, it just
> displays to address@i_sent_to.com.
>
> What the heck am I doing wrong?
If I understand your problem correctly, the mail _is_ sent with the
right sender name, but in the list of emails you don't get "Matthew
Daubenspeck", but instead "to address@i_sent_to.com". So it's purely a
display problem.
mutt has a configuration variable that determines how the message list
is displayed. By default, it contains %L, which will display the name of
the mailing list the mail was sent to[1], or the author name, or the
recipient if the author is yourself. So, any mail you send will always
show as "to something". To always show the contents of the From: line,
you would have to change the %L to %n, which shows the author's name, or
the address if there is no name. To change just that, put
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4l) %s"
in your .muttrc
You can find more about this at
http://mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#index_format
HTH
[1] To have this work, you have to have to tell mutt the names of the
list you post to or are subscribed to.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown
Matijs
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