Re: What's the 'from'-variable up to?

[John Wright]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:44:31AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I use
>       set from="Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> to change my address from local user to provider's user. It did not work
> until I changed 'sendmail' from
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
> to 
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> So I ask myself, what's 'from' all about?
> 
> Thorsten

It sticks it in your From: field don't it.

And mutt will do the -f thing if you set envelope_from=yes