Re: Help with Multiple Email Addresses
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:20:46PM -0600, Aaron Schrab wrote: The 'my_hdr From:' command is overriding the effect of reverse name. If you're using a 1.1.x version, you can set the 'from' variable to the address you want to be the default instead of using my_hdr. Thanks! Worked like a charm. I was running 1.0 from the RPM's provided with LinuxPPC, but I compiled 1.1.something (9 I think), and this works wonderfully! In case anyone else is interested, in addition to the $from variable there is also $realname (stupid me was trying to put both in the $from variable). -- James F. Kubecki The Kubecki Family Web Page: http://www.kubecki.com/
Help with Multiple Email Addresses
Hi there... I'm new to Mutt (and yes, I'm using Pine to send this; I'm won't be using Mutt fully until I get this figured out! :) ), and I'm having trouble with one particular area: using multiple email addresses. Here's what I have so far: In my .muttrc, I have (among other things) the following: set nouse_domain# 'cause I'm on a dialup my_hdr From: James F. Kubecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Default email set alternates=((james|linux)@kubecki.com|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) set reverse_name=yes So here are my questions: 1. When I receive email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reply to it, I get a "From" header of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? How can I change this? My understanding of the reverse_name is that it will figure out which email the message was TO, and reply appropriately. Am I mistaken? 2. When I compose a new email, it of course uses my default my_hdr to compose it unless I've got a send-hook set up for the recipient. In Pine, however, I have my email set up to prompt me (with a default) for which email should be used for the composition. With Mutt, if I'm emailing someone without a send-hook, it will always be the my_hdr From ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The only way I can see to email from a different address without a send-hook would be to turn on edit_headers and manually change the address, which seems inefficient to me. How should I handle this in Mutt? Thanks in advance! I hope I can work out these issues because I LOVE the other features of Mutt! -- James F. Kubecki The Kubecki Family Web Page: http://www.kubecki.com/
Help with Multiple Email Addresses (fwd)
Sorry, I was having problems with Postfix, so this never got to the list. The problems are fixed now (I hope... Guess I'll find out soon enough.) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:52:18 -0500 (EST) From: James F. Kubecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with Multiple Email Addresses Hi there... I'm new to Mutt (and yes, I'm using Pine to send this; I'm won't be using Mutt fully until I get this figured out! :) ), and I'm having trouble with one particular area: using multiple email addresses. Here's what I have so far: In my .muttrc, I have (among other things) the following: set nouse_domain# 'cause I'm on a dialup my_hdr From: James F. Kubecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Default email set alternates=((james|linux)@kubecki.com|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) set reverse_name=yes So here are my questions: 1. When I receive email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reply to it, I get a "From" header of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? How can I change this? My understanding of the reverse_name is that it will figure out which email the message was TO, and reply appropriately. Am I mistaken? 2. When I compose a new email, it of course uses my default my_hdr to compose it unless I've got a send-hook set up for the recipient. In Pine, however, I have my email set up to prompt me (with a default) for which email should be used for the composition. With Mutt, if I'm emailing someone without a send-hook, it will always be the my_hdr From ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The only way I can see to email from a different address without a send-hook would be to turn on edit_headers and manually change the address, which seems inefficient to me. How should I handle this in Mutt? Thanks in advance! I hope I can work out these issues because I LOVE the other features of Mutt! -- James F. Kubecki The Kubecki Family Web Page: http://www.kubecki.com/
Re: Help with Multiple Email Addresses
James F. Kubecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 18 Mar 2000: I'm new to Mutt (and yes, I'm using Pine to send this; I'm won't be using Mutt fully until I get this figured out! :) ), Well, since I can't check the headers, which Mutt version are you using? This is significant because the options available to you will vary depending on that. 1.When I receive email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reply to it, I get a "From" header of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? Because the "my_hdr From:" overrides $reverse_name. This is a known issue, although I'm not sure if it's documented (or where, if it is)... How can I change this? If you want to use $reverse_name, you'll have to stop using "my_hdr From:", because it's not compatible with $reverse_name. There's still a couple of ways to have different From addresses set in send-hooks. If you're using 1.0 (or 1.0.1), you can change the default setting with the variables $realname, $hostname, $use_domain. With these it's not possible to change the "username" portion however. If that's not enough for you, the developement versions (1.1.x) also have a new variable $from (an address) which works similarly to "my_hdr From:", with the exception that $reverse_name overrides it instead. My understanding of the reverse_name is that it will figure out which email the message was TO, and reply appropriately. Am I mistaken? No, your understanding is correct. The only way I can see to email from a different address without a send-hook would be to turn on edit_headers and manually change the address, which seems inefficient to me. How should I handle this in Mutt? You can also use esc-f to edit the From header from the compose menu. (And you're of course free to bind that function to another key, if esc-f is not comfortable for you.) There is no support for otherwise changing the From: header interactively, apart from edit-headers. Hope this helps, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / fortune: cannot execute. Out of cookies.
Re: Help with Multiple Email Addresses
At 23:52 -0500 18 Mar 2000, "James F. Kubecki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set nouse_domain # 'cause I'm on a dialup my_hdr From: James F. Kubecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Default email set alternates=((james|linux)@kubecki.com|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) set reverse_name=yes So here are my questions: 1.When I receive email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reply to it, I get a "From" header of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? How can I change this? My understanding of the reverse_name is that it will figure out which email the message was TO, and reply appropriately. Am I mistaken? The 'my_hdr From:' command is overriding the effect of reverse name. If you're using a 1.1.x version, you can set the 'from' variable to the address you want to be the default instead of using my_hdr. someone without a send-hook, it will always be the my_hdr From ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The only way I can see to email from a different address without a send-hook would be to turn on edit_headers and manually change the address, which seems inefficient to me. How should I handle this in Mutt? You can use the edit-from command in the send menu. The default binding is EscF . -- Aaron Schrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.execpc.com/~aarons/ If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-) --Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein