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On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:50:06PM -0400, jeremy redburn wrote:
> I would like to compose messages by default from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I
> don't want mail actually sent directly to my local machine -- I want
> to receive mail only via fetchmail. I can accomplish this with:
>
> my_hdr From: Jeremy Redburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> my_hdr Reply-to: Jeremy Redburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The only problem is that the my_hdr commands seem to override the set
> reverse_name directive which I need since I would like to reply to
> mails depending on which account they were delivered to.
Use `set from=...' instead of `my_hdr From: ...'. $realname takes
precedence over $from, but not over my_hdr.
BTW I've heard that setting $from does not work well within send-hooks.
Marius Gedminas
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