Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

[Rex Chan <szin@optusnet.com.au>]

Hey,

> > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one
> > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the
> > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have
> > showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously the
> > 'From:' field tends to be the same person. Has anyone fixed that?
> 
> I hope I have understood you correctly, so this is what I use:
> |set index_format="%4C %Z %[%y-%m-%d %R] %-20.20F %?M?(#%03M)&(%5c/%4l)? %s"
> 
> Try to dig through it... :)
According to the mutt manual it should automatically show that field as
a To field if it was from you.

You might not have let mutt know what your email addresses are:

set alternates="\^(\
(address1@somewhere)\
|(address2@somewhere))"

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#index_format
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#alternates