On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:44:33AM -0400, Kyle Knack wrote:
> After reading through this thread, I realized I could benefit from
> something similar, at least for some of my accounts. So far it has been
> mentioned that A) setting the alternates option to match your other
> accounts should do the trick, and B) setting reverse_name should also
> reuse the To: header in the original e-mail (or so I think that's what
> it's supposed to do). Well, neither seem to work for me ;) My
> alternates option is set as:
>
> set alternates = "phineas@only-linux\.com|skwerl@telocity\.com|
> skwerl@eathlink\.net|skerl-0@home\.com"
>
> which I think -should- match my other addresses exactly, unless it looks
> at the real name section of the address as well. I also tried setting
> reverse_name, but that didn't seem to have any effect either. Are there
> some other options I may have in my configs that would cause this to be
> overridden ? I did have a send-hook to force a From: header, but I
> commented that out before I started playing with this. Any insight
> would be appreciated ;)
Hum, I tried both versions propagated in this thread as a
folder-hook, as I don't want this to affect other folders, but I had
no success ...
I did:
folder-hook whatever "set alternates='.*'"
and as that not worked, I tried
folder-hook whatever "set reverse_name=on"
But both didn't work.
Any ideas?
mfg,
Gerd
> * Gerhard Feiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010803 13:26]:
> >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:23:01 +0200
> >From: Gerhard Feiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Automatic Generation of Sender-Adress?
> >User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a slightly weird problem: I have one account, where any mail
> >not sent to a specific account, but to my domain, appears. It is
> >called 'whatever' here.
> >
> >Now i want the following:
> >
> >If anybody sends a mail to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] this mail
> >arrives in 'whatever'. Now, if i want to answer this guy, i don't
> >want [EMAIL PROTECTED] to appear as the sender-address, but:
> >
> >I want the address, the sender entered ([EMAIL PROTECTED] in
> >this example) to be the sender of the reply.
> >
> >And i want this to be automatically set in that specific folder.
> >eg. setting the sender of the reply the same as the To: from the
> >original mail was.
> >
> >Is there any way to accomplish this with mutt and it's friends?
> >
> >mfg,
> >Gerd
> >
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