On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:21PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Sam Watkins wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > >>When I use: mail <inet.addrs> it sends mail to that address with the > > >>options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > > >> > > >>But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of > > >>course does not exist at that inet.addrs. > > >> > > >>How do I with an option not send from "root" as root but from > > >>"whomever" at inet.addrs? > > > > > > > > >You can do something like: > > > > > >mail -a 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >The -a option adds an arbitrary mail header, see mail(1) > > > > > >I tested this, it seems to work. > > > > Thanks! That's it! > > If you have in your ~/.muttrc > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and > set edit_headers > > then you can simply edit the From: header on the occasions that you want > to -- assuming they are not too frequent. > > Just another thought. > > -- > richard > > Hi folks, here is something I have in my muttrc:
send-hook '~C debian-user' 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
send-hook '~C debian-user' 'my_hdr Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
so when, I hit 'r', mutt sets these automatically.
HTH
=Kev
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