Hi. I use my_hdr in .muttrc and it works just fine. But I use smail. Maybe you just need to check $sendmail variable - add some magic key or something. Or maybe it's a problem of slink package - I work with potato.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've got an annoying little problem in mutt with the From: line of my > email. At least, I think it's in mutt. This is on a slink system with > the slink version of mutt. > > Mutt lets you set the From: line of the email, either through `my_hdr > From:', or by pressing ESC f when the message has been composed. But for > some reason, but for some reason it's ignoring both of these and putting > in my actual email address. > > Why would I want to put in a fake address? Well, basically I use qmail, > and it allows you put a -whatever after the name part of the email > address to redirect mail. For example, I'm subscribed to this list as > dm-debian-user@ and I can have mail to that address sent to a particular > mailbox, or whatever. It's very handy for mailing lists and what have > you. > > I subscribed to a mailing list as dm-something@ and when I tried to > change a subscription detail, it kept telling me damon@ was not > subscribed to the list. > > I also use qmail (self built) on my own machine. All mail is sent to a > maildir, and when I connect to my ISP, ip-up runs maildirsmpt and > transfers all my mail to my ISPs SMTP server (works really well for a > dial-up machine). So all my outbound mail gets sent to a local maildir > before it is delivered. When I check the From: line, it's always damon@, > not dm-something@, even if it has said dm-something@ in mutt. > > I can't find anything in my muttrc that would account for this. I also > somehow doubt that qmail is rewriting a MUA-generated line (but I could > be wrong). > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sure this was working fine once, > and it's just recently that it's changed - but maybe I'm just going mad. > > Cheers, > > damon > > -- > Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. > * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony > * Webmeister / disguised as one. > * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
