do you have 'autoedit' set? if you do, here's what happens: when you hit
'm' to start a message, there is no recipient specified, so 'from' gets set
to the default value. you have to let mutt prompt for the recipient before
you edit, so that it can set the 'from' header.
peter
On 5 Oct 00, 7:49AM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:45:33AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> > Hal Burgiss muttered:
> > > Should the below not work? I could swear it used to ;) Recently even.
> > > Despite much playing with this, I cannot get the header to handle the
> > > exceptions.
> > >
> > >
> > > unset use_from
> >
> > Don't know why you do that, but according to the docs it shouldn't
> > hurt. It might be worth testing without this line, though.
>
> I'll try that. That came from an example in the original Muttrc when I
> first installed a couple of years ago.
>
> > > send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
> > > send-hook redhat-list 'my_hdr From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
> >
> > These _have_ to work. If they don't, I'd suspect that there is
> > something else disturbing. Just copy / pasted your send-hooks into my
> > mutt - they work. Please post your whole muttrc.
>
> http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/muttrc
>
> --
> Hal B
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