Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:20:51PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> I want to send e-mail with an attachment via a script. The
> attachment requirement prevents me from using mail but mutt can
> handle it.
>
> Normally when I send using mail, I can simply use the -r option to
> set the mail user account specified in /etc/exim4/passwd.client.
> This is probably clumsy and there must be a better way of doing it
> but it works.
>
> Now I want to use mutt to send attachments but it doesn't have the
> -r option. Putting in "my_hdr From:" in .muttrc doesn't do it
> either.
>
> Can someone suggest a way to make this work? It's probably trivial
> but I can't find the solution via google.
>
>
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In .muttrc:
set from = "test@example.com"
set realname = "John Doe"
See also:
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Header
http://wiki.debian.org/Mutt
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